Backend Engineer: AWS, TypeScript & Serverless

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning

Pension Salary Exchange

Private Medical Insurance

Travel Insurance

Wellness Programme

Breakfast Tuesdays

Pizza on the last Thursday

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology is seeking Backend Developers to join a multidisciplinary digital delivery team in Leeds. You will design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript, AWS, and serverless architectures.

Join a collaborative, outcomes-focused environment delivering meaningful public-sector and private-sector digital services with modern engineering practices, CI/CD, and robust testing.

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.

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

Backend development

TypeScript

AWS

Serverless architecture

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git workflows

Security best practices

Tools

Node.js

Docker

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Methods Business and Digital Technology is seeking Backend Developers to join a multidisciplinary digital delivery team in Leeds. You will design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript, AWS, and serverless architectures.

Join a collaborative, outcomes-focused environment delivering meaningful public-sector and private-sector digital services with modern engineering practices, CI/CD, and robust testing.