Senior Backend Engineer – AI, TypeScript & AWS (Hybrid)

Zebra People | B Corp™; Greater London; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare and dental

5% matched pension

Income protection

Life insurance

Cycle to work

Job summary

Zebra People | B Corp™ is seeking several Senior Software Engineers to build secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript and AWS. You’ll own complex features end to end, shape architecture, and mentor others in a collaborative product team.

In this hands-on senior role, you’ll work on AI-assisted development workflows while maintaining reliability, security, and quality across front and back-end systems. Office presence 2–3 days a week is expected in London or nearby.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems in an agile environment.
• Strong backend development skills with Node.js and TypeScript, including experience designing and building APIs or microservices.
• Comfort contributing to technical design discussions and taking ownership of complex features or services end to end.
• Hands-on experience with AWS - or other - cloud-native development, automated testing, and deployment practices that support reliable delivery.
• Comfort working with SQL databases, Git, Docker-based workflows, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical understanding of AI-assisted engineering tools and broader LLM concepts, with the judgment to use them responsibly with privacy, security, cost, and quality in mind.
• Clear communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and experience supporting or mentoring other engineers within a product engineering team.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code, for example CDK or Terraform.
• Exposure to observability tooling, incident response, or production monitoring practices.
• Experience working with React when contributing to end-to-end product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver complex backend services and APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS, from technical design through release and production support.
• Contribute to design and architecture discussions, making pragmatic decisions that balance delivery speed, maintainability, scalability, and security.
• Mentor and support less experienced engineers through code reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across the team to turn requirements into practical, reliable solutions.
• Use AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, research, and documentation, while validating outputs carefully and applying sound judgment.
• Strengthen service reliability, observability, and engineering quality by improving monitoring, incident response, testing, and development practices.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

APIs / microservices

CI/CD

React

SQL

Docker

Observability

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CDK

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Zebra People | B Corp™ is seeking several Senior Software Engineers to build secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript and AWS. You’ll own complex features end to end, shape architecture, and mentor others in a collaborative product team.

In this hands-on senior role, you’ll work on AI-assisted development workflows while maintaining reliability, security, and quality across front and back-end systems. Office presence 2–3 days a week is expected in London or nearby.