Senior TypeScript Engineer

Zebra People; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £80K

10% bonus

Private healthcare

Dental

Pension match 5%

Income protection

Life insurance

Cycle to work

Job summary

Zebra People is recruiting several Senior Software Engineers for an AI‑driven governance, risk and compliance leader. You’ll own complex backend services, design APIs, and ship production systems using Node.js, TypeScript and AWS.

The role involves hands‑on coding and mentoring, with a 2–3 days in the office per week to collaborate with product teams. Expect modern tooling, AI‑assisted development, strong emphasis on reliability, security, and observability, plus a competitive salary and

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in professional software engineering with production systems.
• Strong back-end with Node.js/TypeScript and API/microservice design.
• Experience with AWS cloud-native development and automated testing.
• Familiar with SQL, Git, Docker-based workflows and modern CI/CD.
• Understanding of AI-assisted engineering tools and responsible use.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver complex backend services and APIs from design to production.
• Contribute to architecture discussions balancing speed, maintainability and security.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and pairing.
• Collaborate with product/design to translate requirements into reliable solutions.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, and testing with sound judgment.
• Improve observability, monitoring, incident response, and quality practices.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

API design

Mentoring

CI/CD

Docker

SQL databases

Git

React

Observability

Infra as code

Tools

CDK

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AWS tooling

Job description

We’re looking for several Senior Software Engineers to join an AI leader in governance, risk and compliance.

The client

You’ll be building software that matters, taking real technical ownership, and using modern AI tooling to do your best work. This is a hands‑on senior engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex product problems, shaping robust solutions, and helping teams deliver reliable services at scale. They’re looking for you to be in the office 2/3 times a week.

You’ll work on secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript, AWS, and modern engineering practices. You’ll play a leading role within a collaborative product engineering team, owning complex features end to end, contributing to design and architectural decisions, supporting production systems, and helping raise the bar across backend, cloud, and AI‑assisted development workflows.

The role

• 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.

The candidate

• 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.

What’s in it for me?

They’re offering a salary of up to £80K, as well as a 10% bonus. Benefits include private healthcare and dental, up to 5% matched pension, income protection, life insurance, cycle to work and several more.