Lead Engineer (PHP/Golang)

Role: Lead Engineer Stack: PHP, Laravel, Go, GCP Location: London, Hybrid (1-2x Month) Salary: Up to £120k benefits Xcede are partnering with a well known technology platform that has over 15 million registered users and are going through a very exciting transformation as a business. What will you do as a Lead Engineer? You will be responsible for leading the backend engineering strategy across the core API infrastructure. Driving best practices and standards Building a robust, high performance architecture powering millions of transactions Organically migrating over from a Laravel Monolith to Golang Microservices What background are they looking for? Extensive PHP/Laravel experience Platform experience (K8s/Docker) Familiarity with building large scale, high load platforms Bonus: Golang microservices Leading architecture discussions If this sounds interesting, please apply or reach out!

Location: Eastern England, GB

Posted Date: 6/16/2025