Salary: £48,000 - 54,000 per year Requirements:
* Strong expertise in Delphi (essential)
* Experience with Lazarus (open-source Delphi IDE) - highly beneficial
* Knowledge of WebSockets and REST APIs in Delphi
* Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
* Ability to assess and re-engineer legacy codebases
* Familiarity with PHP considered helpful (but not required)
* Nice to Have:
* - AWS
* - Docker
* - Experience migrating or modernizing legacy Windows-based applications
* - Exposure to C# / .NET development
Responsibilities:
* As a Software Engineer, I will support the migration of a legacy on-premise application into a modern, cloud-based environment on AWS. I will work as part of a collaborative, delivery-focused team, contributing to application refactoring, rebuilding Delphi dependencies, and helping transition legacy tech into a sustainable future-state architecture. My responsibilities will include:
* Re-platforming the existing application from on-premise Windows servers to AWS
* Converting the MS SQL database to PostgreSQL
* Removing Windows components and transitioning to Linux-based deployments
* Reviewing Delphi dependencies and re-writing/re-architecting components where necessary in a modern language (C# or .NET)
* Supporting any small remaining elements of Delphi UI work
Technologies:
* AWS
* C#
* Cloud
* Delphi
* Docker
* Support
* Linux
* PHP
* PostgreSQL
* REST
* SQL
* Windows
* UX UI Design
* ASP.NET
More:
I am offering a fully remote position for an experienced Software Engineer with a project duration of over 6 months. The compensation rate ranges from £400 to £450 a day and falls inside IR35. This project involves migrating a legacy PHP and Delphi application running on Windows / MS SQL to an AWS-hosted environment using PostgreSQL.
last updated 49 week of 2025