Tech Lead, Backend Developer

About Us

Forsyth Barnes have partnered with a fast-growing Nottingham-based eCommerce healthcare business built on a simple idea: healthcare should feel personal, accessible, and human.

They combine online consultations with discreet home delivery and clinician-led support, helping over 100,000 patients across the UK.

As the business scales, they are now strengthening their engineering function to improve how their core platform is built, extended, and evolved.

This is a hands‑on senior engineering role focused on building, improving, and extending the core platform.

You will work closely with the founders and take ownership of key areas of the product from Word Press/Woo Commerce development through to custom integrations, APIs, and performance optimisation.

This is not a Dev Ops or infrastructure‑led role.

It is a product engineering role with leadership responsibility.

• Build and maintain Word Press / Woo Commerce‑based eCommerce systems
• Develop custom plugins, themes, and backend functionality (PHP)
• Design and integrate APIs and third‑party systems
• Work across the full stack (PHP + JavaScript)
• Improve platform performance, stability, and scalability
• Contribute to architecture and technical decision‑making
• Support and mentor other developers where required
• Work directly with founders to shape product direction

• Strong commercial experience with PHP development
• Proven experience with Word Press and/or Woo Commerce
• Experience building custom plugins or themes
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (vanilla, React or Vue preferred)
• Experience with APIs and third‑party integrations
• Comfortable working in fast‑moving, product‑focused environments
• Able to take ownership of features from concept to deployment