Senior TypeScript Engineer: Node.js & AWS Serverless

Codurance; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Codurance is seeking a Senior TypeScript Engineer (Node.js, AWS Serverless) for a 6-month contract to work on a financial platform. The role is hybrid with locations including London, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh or Bristol.

You will design, build, and run TypeScript/Node.js services on AWS serverless infrastructure within a small, cross-functional team. You will own production in a build-and-run environment, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with product and operations to continually

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including serverless (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, API Gateway, S3, ECS).
• Strong experience with event-driven architecture.
• Experience with document databases, ideally MongoDB.
• A track record of 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

MongoDB

Mentoring

Incident management

FinTech experience

Tools

AWS Lambda

AWS SQS

AWS EventBridge

API Gateway

AWS S3

AWS ECS

Job description

Codurance is seeking a Senior TypeScript Engineer (Node.js, AWS Serverless) for a 6-month contract to work on a financial platform. The role is hybrid with locations including London, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh or Bristol.

You will design, build, and run TypeScript/Node.js services on AWS serverless infrastructure within a small, cross-functional team. You will own production in a build-and-run environment, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with product and operations to continually