Senior Node.js AWS Serverless Engineer | Bristol Hybrid

Virtual Hire Staffing; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Virtual Hire Staffing seeks a Senior Full-Stack Engineer in Bristol to own high-traffic financial transfer features across React frontends and AWS serverless backends, with end-to-end ownership from discovery to production.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup (2 days on-site in Bristol), apply infrastructure as code, and tackle complex integrations, monitoring, and CI/CD improvements while reducing tech debt.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Node.js and TypeScript with AWS Lambda/APIGateway
• Experience with infrastructure as code (CDK or SST)
• Hands-on DynamoDB, Secrets Manager, SSM
• Strong testing discipline (Vitest) and GitLab CI
• Monorepo experience and secure auth flows

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining features across high-traffic financial transfer journeys
• Working full-stack: React frontends, AWS Lambda BFF layers, infrastructure as code
• Owning issues end-to-end — not just writing code, but seeing it through
• Flagging tech debt and driving CI/CD improvements rather than waiting to be asked

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS Lambda

React

Monorepo

CI/CD

Tools

AWS API Gateway

CDK

SST

DynamoDB

Secrets Manager

SSM Parameter Store

Vitest

GitLab CI

OAuth

Job description

Virtual Hire Staffing seeks a Senior Full-Stack Engineer in Bristol to own high-traffic financial transfer features across React frontends and AWS serverless backends, with end-to-end ownership from discovery to production.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup (2 days on-site in Bristol), apply infrastructure as code, and tackle complex integrations, monitoring, and CI/CD improvements while reducing tech debt.