Backend Developer | AWS, TypeScript & Serverless

Methods; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning

Wellness programme

25 days holiday per year

Pension Salary Exchange

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Travel Insurance

Breakfast Tuesdays

Job summary

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy in the UK seeking Backend Developers to build secure, scalable digital services used by millions. You’ll design and implement backend APIs with TypeScript, leverage serverless architectures on AWS, and work in a multidisciplinary team across government and private sector clients.

You will contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production support while upholding security and performance standards within an agile delivery environment.

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 continuous integration and continuous delivery 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.
• Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture and support colleagues through mentoring and knowledge sharing where appropriate.

Skills

TypeScript

AWS

Serverless

Node.js

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Git

Cloud security

Software design patterns

Tools

Docker

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy in the UK seeking Backend Developers to build secure, scalable digital services used by millions. You’ll design and implement backend APIs with TypeScript, leverage serverless architectures on AWS, and work in a multidisciplinary team across government and private sector clients.

You will contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production support while upholding security and performance standards within an agile delivery environment.