Backend Platform Engineer - Node.js, TypeScript & AWS

Brookwood Recruitment Ltd; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 87,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Brookwood Recruitment Ltd in Amsterdam, Netherlands is seeking an experienced Backend Platform Engineer to design, build and scale a next-generation platform handling large volumes of business-critical data.

You will work in a hybrid model (2 days onsite per week) on cloud-native backend services, APIs and distributed systems using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and S3, with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience building backend APIs, microservices and distributed systems.
• Hands-on with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and event-driven queues/workers.
• Owns software delivery from design through production.
• Strong testing mindset: unit, integration and contract testing.
• Nice-to-have: AI-assisted development tools knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable backend services end-to-end.
• Develop robust APIs and platform capabilities using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build and maintain cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, queues, workers, and orchestration services.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

APIs & Microservices

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

S3

Event-driven

Queues & workers

Monitoring & observability

Testing mindset

Tools

AWS Lambda

DynamoDB

S3

Monitoring tooling

Event-driven architectures

Queues & workers

Job description

Brookwood Recruitment Ltd in Amsterdam, Netherlands is seeking an experienced Backend Platform Engineer to design, build and scale a next-generation platform handling large volumes of business-critical data.

You will work in a hybrid model (2 days onsite per week) on cloud-native backend services, APIs and distributed systems using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB and S3, with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability.