Software Engineer

Anson McCade; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Anson McCade is seeking a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to join an engineering team building cloud-native applications and internal platforms in Nottingham. You will own serverless development, infrastructure as code, and production-grade deployments on AWS, with a strong focus on automation and reliability.

You will design, build and maintain serverless apps, develop TypeScript/Node.js services, and manage CI/CD pipelines while ensuring security and observability across environments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS experience with Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and IAM.
• Experience with IaC using CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Automated testing experience, ideally Jest.
• CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Cloud security fundamentals including IAM, least privilege and secrets management.
• Agile software engineering and full lifecycle delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain serverless applications on AWS.
• Develop clean, maintainable TypeScript/Node.js services.
• Build RESTful and event-driven APIs across microservices.
• Own features end-to-end from design to deployment and incident response.
• Manage AWS infrastructure with CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• Implement monitoring, alerts and observability in production.
• Collaborate with product, platform and DevOps teams to scale solutions.
• Contribute to technical design, documentation and runbooks.

Skills

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

S3

IAM

Infrastructure as Code

Jest

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

REST APIs

Event-driven

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Security best practices

Tools

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Nottingham | Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office

We’re looking for a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to join an engineering team building cloud-native applications and internal platforms.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys writing clean code, automating infrastructure and building production-grade software on AWS. You’ll work across serverless, event-driven architectures, infrastructure as code and CI/CD, taking ownership of your work from design and development through to deployment and monitoring.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, build and maintain serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS and SNS
• Develop clean, maintainable and well-tested TypeScript / Node.js services
• Build RESTful and event-driven APIs across microservices and distributed workloads
• Own features end-to-end, from requirements and design through to testing, deployment and incident response
• Design and manage AWS infrastructure using CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar
• Implement monitoring, alerting and observability across production environments
• Work with AWS IAM, secrets management and security best practices
• Collaborate with product, platform and DevOps teams to deliver scalable engineering solutions
• Contribute to technical design, documentation, runbooks and architectural decisions

What we’re looking for

You’ll ideally have strong hands-on experience with:

• AWS, particularly Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and IAM
• Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform
• Automated testing, ideally Jest
• CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or CircleCI
• REST APIs and event-driven architectures
• Cloud security fundamentals including IAM, least privilege and secrets management
• Agile software engineering and full lifecycle delivery

Nice to have

Experience with any of the following would be a bonus:

• React or another modern frontend framework
• Java, Go, C#, Rust or another strongly typed language
• Internal developer platforms or shared engineering services
• AWS Connect, voice, telephony or contact centre technologies
• Event streaming technologies such as Kinesis, EventBridge, Kafka or SQS/SNS

Why this role?

You’ll be joining a team where you can have genuine ownership over the technology you build, working across software engineering, cloud infrastructure and automation rather than being siloed into one area.