Senior TypeScript & AWS Lambda Engineer (Onsite LATAM)

NTT DATA, Europe & LATAM, Branch in USA, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specialized in TypeScript and AWS Lambda to design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable serverless backend services. The role requires hands-on delivery, focusing on production-grade code, security, and observability, with 100% onsite work in LATAM and EST hours.

You will mentor peers and collaborate across product, QA, and DevOps teams. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in software development with deep TS and AWS Lambda experience, and a

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• At least 3 years of experience building production services on AWS.
• Proven hands-on experience delivering serverless applications in production.
• Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting distributed, event-driven systems.
• Experience working within cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Build production-ready serverless applications using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.
• Develop event-driven workflows using Amazon EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and AWS Step Functions.
• Apply appropriate retry, idempotency, error-handling, and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Implement integrations between customer-facing channels, internal platforms, and third-party systems through REST APIs, webhooks, and asynchronous messaging.
• Participate in technical design discussions and translate architectural designs into scalable, production-ready code.Write unit, integration, and contract tests using Jest, Vitest, or similar testing frameworks.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold clean-code, strict-typing, and maintainability standards.
• Define infrastructure alongside application code using AWS CDK or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply secure coding and AWS security practices, including least-privilege IAM roles, input validation, secrets management, and OAuth 2.0/OIDC authentication.
• Implement structured logging, monitoring, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and optimize AWS Lambda performance and cost.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, QA Engineers, DevOps Engineers, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor developers and contribute to technical knowledge sharing.
• Own features throughout the full lifecycle, from development and deployment through production support

Skills

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Agile/Scrum

Tools

TypeScript

AWS Lambda

Node.js

Amazon API Gateway

Amazon EventBridge

Amazon SQS

Amazon SNS

AWS Step Functions

AWS CDK

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Jest/Vitest

OpenAPI

DynamoDB

Aurora

Microsoft SQL Server

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Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specialized in TypeScript and AWS Lambda to design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable serverless backend services. The role requires hands-on delivery, focusing on production-grade code, security, and observability, with 100% onsite work in LATAM and EST hours.

You will mentor peers and collaborate across product, QA, and DevOps teams. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in software development with deep TS and AWS Lambda experience, and a