Backend Engineer - AWS, TypeScript & Serverless

Methods; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning access

Management development programme

Wellness 24/7 confidential employeeass

Breakfast Tuesdays

Thirsty Thursdays

Pizza last Thursday of every month

25 days annual leave

Pension Salary Exchange Scheme

Life Assurance 4x base salary

Private Medical Insurance (non-contrib

Worldwide Travel Insurance

Job summary

Methods is seeking a skilled Backend Developer to join its digital delivery team in the UK. You will design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript, AWS and serverless architectures.

You'll work with a multidisciplinary team to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, write tests, contribute to CI/CD, and ensure security and performance across large-scale public-facing services used by millions.

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

AWS Lambda

Serverless architecture

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Git

Node.js

Security best practices

Testing (unit/integration)

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

GraphQL

Docker

Job description

Methods is seeking a skilled Backend Developer to join its digital delivery team in the UK. You will design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript, AWS and serverless architectures.

You'll work with a multidisciplinary team to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, write tests, contribute to CI/CD, and ensure security and performance across large-scale public-facing services used by millions.