Senior Migrations Engineer
Senior Migrations Engineer
Fully Remote, UK
£70,000 – £80,000
We’re working with a fast-growing, mission-driven technology company who are looking for a Senior Migrations Engineer to play a critical role in scaling their onboarding platform.
This is a high-impact, hands-on engineering role focused on building and evolving a mission-critical migrations platform that supports thousands of customers. If you enjoy solving complex data challenges and owning systems end-to-end, this is worth exploring.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing and scaling a high-performance migrations platform (PHP-based)
- Owning reliability, observability, and SLAs across migration services
- Automating workflows to reduce operational overhead
- Leading incident investigations and driving long-term fixes
- Collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Support, and Onboarding teams
- Mentoring engineers and contributing to strong technical standards
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience in software engineering on production systems
- Solid background in data migrations / ETL / data-heavy systems
- Expertise in PHP (ideally Symfony)
- Deep understanding of databases (SQL, data integrity, validation)
- Experience with AWS and distributed systems
- Familiarity with observability tooling, CI/CD, and automation scripting
- Comfortable working flexibly during key migration periods
Why this role?
- Work on a platform that directly impacts thousands of people
- Join a team focused on quality, sustainability, and meaningful outcomes
- Strong engineering culture with real ownership and autonomy
- Fully remote with flexibility built in