Backend Developer (AWS, TypeScript, Serverless)

Methods; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off 25 days a year

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance of 4x base salary

Pension Salary Exchange with employer/

Wellness 24/7 Confidential support

Breakfast Tuesdays

Thirsty Thursdays

Pizza last Thursday of each month

Worldwide Travel Insurance

Job summary

Methods is seeking Backend Developers to join a digital delivery team building secure, scalable services used across the UK public sector. You’ll design and develop backend services and APIs with TypeScript, leveraging serverless architectures and AWS Lambda.

You’ll work in a multidisciplinary team, contributing to automated testing, CI/CD and production reliability. You will translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, participate in code reviews, and help maintain

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing backend services and APIs.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript.
• Experience designing and developing solutions using serverless architecture.
• Strong practical experience with AWS cloud services.
• Strong experience developing and deploying applications using AWS Lambda.
• Understanding of event-driven and cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience designing secure, scalable and resilient backend services.
• Experience working with APIs, including RESTful APIs and integration with external or internal services.
• Experience with automated testing, including unit and integration testing.
• Experience using Git and modern software development workflows.
• Understanding of software engineering principles including clean code, modularity, maintainability, version control and appropriate design patterns.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving application defects, performance issues and production problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality backend services using TypeScript.
• Design and implement solutions using serverless architecture and cloud-native development principles.
• Develop and maintain applications and services using AWS, including AWS Lambda.
• Build secure, scalable and reliable APIs and backend services.
• Translate user and business requirements into reliable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested and maintainable code following modern software engineering practices.
• Work collaboratively with frontend and mobile developers, designers, product managers, QA professionals and other technical specialists within an agile multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews and architectural decision-making.
• Develop automated tests and contribute to CI/CD processes.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues, defects, performance problems and production incidents.
• Consider security, accessibility, privacy, resilience, scalability and performance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Help establish and maintain development standards, patterns and best practices.

Skills

TypeScript

AWS Lambda

Serverless

REST APIs

Git

CI/CD

Testing

Security

Node.js

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Docker

Node.js

Job description

Methods is seeking Backend Developers to join a digital delivery team building secure, scalable services used across the UK public sector. You’ll design and develop backend services and APIs with TypeScript, leveraging serverless architectures and AWS Lambda.

You’ll work in a multidisciplinary team, contributing to automated testing, CI/CD and production reliability. You will translate business requirements into robust technical solutions, participate in code reviews, and help maintain