• Leading by example through hands-on development and high-quality code contributions

• Ensuring consistent engineering standards through code reviews, testing, and automation

• Working closely with Product Management to translate requirements into robust technical solutions

• Acting as the technical escalation point for the squad

People Leadership

• Line managing four developers, including performance management and career development

• Coaching and mentoring engineers to grow their technical and professional capabilities

• Supporting hiring, onboarding, and team growth where required

• Fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture

Our Development Culture

• Product-focused agile environment using Scrum

• Strong emphasis on collaboration, pair programming, and code reviews

• Preference for clean, maintainable solutions over over-engineering

• Engineers are involved in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives

• Continuous learning is actively supported through books, courses, certifications, and other resources

• Shared responsibility for infrastructure, DevOps, and CI/CD depending on experience

Technology Stack

Backend: PHP (Symfony) and Python, MySQL/PostgreSQL

Frontend: Vue.js (though most of the Integrations stack is headless)

Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes

CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Our systems handle thousands of requests per minute and manage databases with hundreds of millions of records. We design and architect with scalability-first principles, use caching extensively, and integrate with third-party services.

Required Experience

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Senior Engineer, or in a similar technical leadership role

• Strong experience building and maintaining API-driven, backend systems

• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and scalable architecture

• Experience working across the full stack in production systems

• Experience collaborating closely with Product and QA in agile teams

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, pragmatic mindset

Desirable

• Experience working with high-throughput, data-intensive platforms and pipelines

• Familiarity with regulated or complex domains (e.g. healthcare)

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures

Nourish Benefits

• 25 days basic annual leave, plus Bank Holidays

• Incremental leave benefit of 1 extra day per completed year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days (up to 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays for long-standing employees)

• Extra paid day off for your birthday

• Paid days off for volunteering opportunities

• Private Medical Insurance

• Pension

• Referral Bonus

• Health and Wellbeing platform including access to 24/7 GP & 24/7 EAP

• Counselling and support

• Variable impact workouts

• Wellbeing videos including prompts for healthy behaviours

• Wellbeing, care and compassion leave policies

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Career Development opportunities and regular reviews

• Recognition and Rewards

• Social Events throughout the year

All positions at Nourish are subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, references and receipt of the appropriate Right to Work documents.

Nourish is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek and embrace differences in thinking, experience, ethnicity, age, gender, faith, personalities and styles. The different skills, experiences and backgrounds our employees bring to their roles creates a diverse and makes Nourish a special place to work.