Lead Node.js Engineer - Remote, Cloud & API Expert

Sanderson Government & Defence; City Of London; Remote; GBP 82,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking an experienced Lead Software Developer for a high-profile programme delivering scalable, cloud-based solutions in a secure environment. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction with active design and development work.

In an agile delivery team you will mentor developers, drive architecture decisions, build RESTful APIs and microservices, and champion CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and cloud-native services on

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js.
• API development using REST and OpenAPI.
• Web application development using HAPI.
• Cloud platforms experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Containerisation with Docker, Kubernetes and ECS.
• CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Experience using Jira and Azure DevOps for work management and delivery tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of robust, scalable software solutions.
• Drive technical decision-making and provide guidance to development teams.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Build and support cloud-native applications hosted in AWS and Azure.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, testers, and stakeholders across the delivery lifecycle.
• Champion code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD best practices.
• Support deployment, containerisation, and platform optimisation activities.

Skills

Node.js

REST

OpenAPI

HAPI

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Jest

Lab

Git

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Jira

Job description

Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking an experienced Lead Software Developer for a high-profile programme delivering scalable, cloud-based solutions in a secure environment. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical direction with active design and development work.

In an agile delivery team you will mentor developers, drive architecture decisions, build RESTful APIs and microservices, and champion CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and cloud-native services on