Senior TS Engineer: Node.js & AWS Serverless (FinTech)

Codurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 23,985,000 - 31,365,000; Full time

Job summary

Codurance, a software craftsmanship consultancy, seeks a Senior TypeScript Engineer to design, build, and run Node.js services on AWS serverless in a financial platform project. You’ll join a small, cross-functional team with product, operations, and customer-facing colleagues, owning features from architecture to production.

This role is based in the UK with flexible hybrid working and a strong emphasis on code quality and mentorship.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Hands-on AWS Serverless experience (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, S3, ECS).
• Experience in event-driven architecture.
• Experience with document databases, ideally MongoDB.
• A track record leading technical delivery in a build-and-run model.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.
• Experience with incident management.
• Experience in a regulated industry, ideally financial services or FinTech.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate services within your domain, from architecture through to delivery
• Take accountability for the SLAs of what you ship, and keep improving it
• Write and maintain useful documentation for your services
• Mentor and guide other engineers
• Explain how the system works to non-technical colleagues, without making them feel daft for asking
• Judge when 'good enough for now' is the right call, and when it isn't
• Work openly with product and operations, and challenge ideas constructively

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS Serverless

Event-driven

Mentoring

Incident management

Financial services

Regulated industry

Tools

Terraform

Serverless Framework

GitHub Actions

MongoDB

Observability tools

Job description

Codurance, a software craftsmanship consultancy, seeks a Senior TypeScript Engineer to design, build, and run Node.js services on AWS serverless in a financial platform project. You’ll join a small, cross-functional team with product, operations, and customer-facing colleagues, owning features from architecture to production.

This role is based in the UK with flexible hybrid working and a strong emphasis on code quality and mentorship.