Tech Lead
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Description
Job Title: Tech Lead (API Focus)
Reporting To: Group Engineering Manager
Location: Remote working / Occasional travel to Bournemouth & Bristol
Job Type: Full Time 37.5 hours a week
Our Purpose
Nourish Care provides a digital solution to the health and social care sector which improves the process of recording, analysing, and sharing of information. We seek to enhance and simplify care in equal measures; To harness the power of care management software to improve the lives of people who need care and those who provide it.
We are in the midst of one of the most exciting times in our history and while we are the current market leader in the sector, we will not be complacent. We are dedicated to our purpose of a better life for everyone. We continue to revolutionise the care sector and our incredible employees are what make this possible.
About The Job
We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead to lead our API Platform Team. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management and architectural ownership.
You will be accountable for the technical direction, delivery quality, and ongoing evolution of our API-first platform as we migrate away from legacy systems.
You will also lead the development of reusable Vue-based modules that replace legacy Drupal-rendered functionality and support multiple products across the Nourish ecosystem.
The API Platform Team is small but highly focused and operates within a wider engineering organisation of approximately 80 people, including QA and Product.
This is a true Tech Lead role with a ~70/30 split between hands-on development and leadership responsibilities.
What You’ll Be Accountable For
Reporting To: Group Engineering Manager
Location: Remote working / Occasional travel to Bournemouth & Bristol
Job Type: Full Time 37.5 hours a week
Our Purpose
Nourish Care provides a digital solution to the health and social care sector which improves the process of recording, analysing, and sharing of information. We seek to enhance and simplify care in equal measures; To harness the power of care management software to improve the lives of people who need care and those who provide it.
We are in the midst of one of the most exciting times in our history and while we are the current market leader in the sector, we will not be complacent. We are dedicated to our purpose of a better life for everyone. We continue to revolutionise the care sector and our incredible employees are what make this possible.
About The Job
We are looking for an experienced Tech Lead to lead our API Platform Team. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management and architectural ownership.
You will be accountable for the technical direction, delivery quality, and ongoing evolution of our API-first platform as we migrate away from legacy systems.
You will also lead the development of reusable Vue-based modules that replace legacy Drupal-rendered functionality and support multiple products across the Nourish ecosystem.
The API Platform Team is small but highly focused and operates within a wider engineering organisation of approximately 80 people, including QA and Product.
This is a true Tech Lead role with a ~70/30 split between hands-on development and leadership responsibilities.
What You’ll Be Accountable For
- Owning the technical direction and architecture of the API platform
- Leading the migration from legacy applications to an API-first architecture
- Defining and maintaining standards for API design, versioning, documentation, and security
- Making pragmatic technical decisions and trade-offs with scalability, performance, and maintainability in mind
- Ensuring non-functional requirements are met (reliability, observability, resilience, performance)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Backend: PHP (Symfony), MySQL
- Frontend: Vue.js (limited to new components)
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Required Experience
- Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Senior Engineer, or in a similar technical leadership role
- Experience migrating or modernising legacy systems
- Experience working with high-throughput, data-intensive platforms
- Familiarity with regulated or complex domains (e.g. healthcare)
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
- 25 days basic annual leave, plus Bank Holidays
- In addition, we offer incremental leave benefit of 1 extra day for each completed year of service, up to a maximum of 5 additional days. This means long standing employees can enjoy up to 30 days of annual leave per year, plus bank holidays.
- Extra paid day off for your birthday
- Paid days off for volunteering opportunities
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension
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