Senior Backend Engineer — AWS, TypeScript & IoT Platform

Christopher Ali; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Christopher Ali are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join a fast growing UK technology business. You’ll build and run the cloud platform behind a large estate of connected hardware that is used every day.

You’ll have real ownership across design, build, monitoring and support, in a team that sits at the centre of the company’s growth plans. You’ll work with AWS, TypeScript, and IaC while collaborating across hardware, embedded and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Deep commercial experience with TypeScript on the backend.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (preferably AWS) and IaC.
• Familiar with Git and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Jest or Vitest.
• Agile experience (Scrum and/or Kanban).
• Experience with relational and NoSQL data stores (e.g. Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis).
• Exposure to Python/Rust/React desirable.
• IoT or energy experience.
• Strong debugging skills, including at the network level.
• Clear communicator who works well both independently and in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, well-tested backend services, mainly in TypeScript, with some infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Design, delivering and supporting cloud-native services on AWS
• Coaching and supporting less experienced engineers
• Investigating and resolving production issues and defects
• Working closely with colleagues across hardware, embedded, customer support and operations
• Helping shape a strong testing culture across the whole stack

Skills

TypeScript backend

Cloud experience (AWS)

CI/CD tooling

Agile methodologies

Debugging skills

Relational & NoSQL databases

Strong communicator

IoT/energy domain

Tools

Terraform IaC

Git

Jest

Vitest

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Christopher Ali are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join a fast growing UK technology business. You’ll build and run the cloud platform behind a large estate of connected hardware that is used every day.

You’ll have real ownership across design, build, monitoring and support, in a team that sits at the centre of the company’s growth plans. You’ll work with AWS, TypeScript, and IaC while collaborating across hardware, embedded and operations teams.