Software Engineer - Backend

Job Title: Software Engineer - Backend

Location: Islington, London

Contract: Perm

Recruiter: Noaman Hussain

About the role

We are looking for a Mid-Level Back End Software Engineer to work on our Boots Online Doctor healthcare platform. This is suited to an engineer, looking to contribute to the development of our internal applications. You’ll join us at an exciting time, as we build our engineering team, working on exciting projects within an amazing team of dedicated people.

What you’ll do:

• Develop new features and functionality on internal and external systems using PHP 7/8 onwards
• Leverage security and best practices when writing code
• Delivering and supporting the implementation of projects
• Build strong relationships with their peers as well as relevant business stakeholders both in Boots and Boots Digital Health
• Proactively participating in design and code reviews to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
• Provide support and doing root cause analysis to investigate issues and bugs in existing code
• Maintaining high-quality documentation

What you’ll need to have

• Previous working experience in development including in component based architecture
• Experience building highly scalable apps with reusable components
• Knowledge of building and consuming RESTful and non-RESTful APIs
• Solid understanding of headless web applications
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming using SOLID principles
• Experience with GoLang
• Previous working experience in development using the LAMP stack
• Understands the importance of unit and functional testing and can write their own tests
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter etc
• Familiar with Git version control
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, S3 etc)
• Excellent with MySQL 5 and 8, both with and without modern frameworks e.g. Eloquent
• Comfortable with working on legacy code and refactoring
• PSR coding styles and use of tooling such as CS-Fixer, PHPStan
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• The ability to write and maintain clear and high-quality documentation
• Experience working in teams using Agile/SAFE Agile/Scrum methodologies

It would be great if you also have

• Experience working in the healthcare industry
• Enjoy knowledge sharing and mentoring team members
• Knowledge of GoLang and creating AWS Lambdas
• Documentation experience with Confluence
• Automated Testing skills: Cypress, Playwright etc
• Experience with Docker

Our benefits

• Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by WBA and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.

What's next

If your application is successful, our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have. If you have not been successful on this occasion, you will be notified by email.

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

You will complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

We are a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.