Backend Engineer — AWS, TypeScript & Serverless

Worky; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning

Wellness programme

Breakfast Tuesdays

Pizza on Thursdays

Pension salary exchange

Life Assurance

Private medical insurance

Worldwide travel insurance

Job summary

Methods is an IT services consultancy delivering public sector digital services across the UK. We are hiring a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript within a cloud-native, serverless setup.

You will join a multidisciplinary team, work on high-impact public-facing services, and contribute to robust testing, deployment, and continuous improvement practices in an agile 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.
• 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.

Skills

TypeScript

Serverless architecture

AWS cloud

Git workflows

Automated testing

REST/GraphQL APIs

CI/CD

Docker

Tools

AWS

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

S3

SQS

SNS

EventBridge

CloudWatch

IAM

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Node.js

Job description

Methods is an IT services consultancy delivering public sector digital services across the UK. We are hiring a Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript within a cloud-native, serverless setup.

You will join a multidisciplinary team, work on high-impact public-facing services, and contribute to robust testing, deployment, and continuous improvement practices in an agile environment.