Am on the other side of one of these, and worked for a UK based firm hiring overseas in the past too. Am not a lawyer or any other legal person and am not capable of giving valid legal advice (which you should definitely get).

EOR is often easiest to start as they take on a lot of burdens but are spendy (monthly fee on top of employee costs). They then work for the EOR, permanently seconded to your company.

Uk working norms are much closer to Europe - we take holiday/PTO/leave and expect to not only use it all but carry it over if we can’t use it. Working hours are generally max 40/week, there’s a legal right to under* 48/week on a rolling average that has to be opted out of contractually, and there are rights to parental leave, flexible working and other things that you’d have to cater for as well.

Repeat and echo - speak to a lawyer/solicitor/HR professional with experience 😁

Go is quite nice for this, generally low traffic services are less than 100mb used memory if you’re using the standard lib stuff and it’s not a huge jump from the JVM to Go.

Insomnia is a bit more like classic postman, though it’s kinda heading the same way too.

Ended up falling back to cURL and shell history for REST stuffs a lot of the time.

Subscribed - great idea 😁