Backend Engineer: AWS, TypeScript & Serverless

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

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning

Wellness programme

Breakfast Tuesdays

Pizza events

Pension salary exchange

Private Medical Insurance

Travel Insurance

Life Assurance

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology in the United Kingdom is recruiting Backend Developers to design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript and serverless AWS architectures.

You'll work in a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with frontend, product managers and QA to deliver robust digital services for public and private sector clients, with emphasis on security, reliability and maintainability.

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.

Skills

TypeScript

AWS

AWS Lambda

Serverless

API design

Git

CI/CD

Node.js

Cloud security

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Methods Business and Digital Technology in the United Kingdom is recruiting Backend Developers to design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript and serverless AWS architectures.

You'll work in a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with frontend, product managers and QA to deliver robust digital services for public and private sector clients, with emphasis on security, reliability and maintainability.