Senior Software Engineer - Backend and Platform

Ithika Recruitment Ltd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks a Senior Software Engineer / Platform Developer in London. This hybrid role focuses on backend development using TypeScript and AWS, ensuring smooth operations for the product team. The ideal candidate will handle infrastructure issues, build APIs, and improve software deployment processes. A competitive salary package up to £90,000 plus benefits including a discretionary bonus and private healthcare is offered.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus (10%)

Private Healthcare

25 Days holiday

5% pension

Life Insurance

2 Volunteering days a year

Season Ticket Loan

Qualifications

• Comfortable coding in TypeScript and other strongly structured languages.
• Experience with CI/CD for automating the build, test, and release processes.
• Ability to work with databases and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Fixing core technical problems to prevent slowing down the product team.
• Building and managing safe and reliable APIs.
• Improving the deployment process of software.

Skills

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

REST APIs

SQL

DevOps tools (Terraform, Ansible)

Testing automation

Web frameworks (Next.js, .NET, C#)

Tools

TypeScript

AWS

SQL

Next.js

.NET

C#

Job description

Overview

Senior Software Engineer / Platform Developer - backend and platform

TypeScript, AWS

London - hybrid

(Tues/Weds/Thurs in offices near Farringdon tube station)

around £80,000 - £90,000 plus package

Discretionary bonus (10%), Private Healthcare, 25 Days holiday, 5% pension, Life Insurance, 2 Volunteering days a year, Season Ticket Loan

Do you love music, storytelling and building the tools that help a software team succeed?

This organisation have helped tell some of the worlds most iconic stories. With a history spanning 24 years, 140 staff and a passion for the highest quality, they need a Senior Developer to be the architect and mechanic of their digital workshop.

This Platform Developer role is about making life easier for the company's product team. You will focus on the behind-the-scenes plumbing and tools that let those teams work faster, safer, and with fewer headaches.

Responsibilities

• Fixing core problems: You'll handle tricky technical stuff (like infrastructure and systems) so the product team doesn't get slowed down.
• Building APIs: the bridges that let different software talk to each other. You'll create and manage these bridges to make sure they're safe, reliable, and can handle lots of use.
• Helping deploy software faster: You'll improve the process of releasing new software so it's quick, repeatable, and less error-prone.

What you'll be excited to work on

• Modernising TeamCity into GitHub actions
• Improving dev productivity and quality of life
• Building a better AI pipeline - pier review/AI review - improving efficiencies and productivity with AI
• Transitioning old .NET API's to JS and Lambda (serverless)
• Building abstract provisioning tools

Qualifications / Skills

• Comfortable coding in TypeScript (and ideally other strongly structured languages).
• Experience with CI/CD (automating the build, test, and release process).
• Know your way around AWS cloud services.
• Good at building REST APIs.
• Can work with databases and SQL.
• Extra points if you've worked with testing automation, integrations between systems, DevOps tools (like Terraform or Ansible), or web frameworks like Next.js, .NET, and C#.

Tools they use

• TypeScript
• AWS (Terraform, AWS SAM, Ansible (or similar))
• SQL
• Next.js and Vercel
• .NET and C#

The environment is high-trust, kind and considerate; working together, challenging each other and helping those around you improve every day. They have very low staff turnover with training, progression, support, flexibility and new technical challenges all the time.

If you are a confident Platform Developer, looking for a new home where you will be challenged, supported and thrive then please apply now or contact Simon at Ithika Recruitment for more information and a confidential chat.

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