Backend Developer - AWS/Typescript/Serverless Architecture/AWS Lambda
Quick overview
Job description
• Design, develop and maintain high-quality backend services using TypeScript
• Design and implement serverless, cloud-native solutions
• Develop and maintain AWS applications and services, including AWS Lambda
• Build secure, scalable and reliable APIs and backend services
• Translate user and business requirements into maintainable technical solutions
• Write clean, well-tested and maintainable code
• Collaborate with frontend and mobile developers, designers, product managers, QA professionals and technical specialists in an agile multidisciplinary team
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews and architectural decision-making
• Develop automated tests and contribute to CI/CD processes
• Investigate and resolve technical issues, defects, performance problems and production incidents
• Address security, accessibility, privacy, resilience, scalability and performance throughout the development lifecycle
• Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge sharing, development standards, patterns and best practices
• Support an inclusive engineering culture and mentor colleagues where appropriate
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience developing backend services and APIs
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience designing and developing solutions using serverless architecture
- Strong practical experience with AWS cloud services
- Strong experience developing and deploying applications using AWS Lambda
- Understanding of event-driven and cloud-native application architectures
- Experience designing secure, scalable and resilient backend services
- Experience with RESTful APIs and integration with external or internal services
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing
- Experience using Git and modern software development workflows
- Understanding of clean code, modularity, maintainability, version control and design patterns
- Experience diagnosing and resolving application defects, performance issues and production problems
- Understanding of AWS Lambda and serverless application development
- Understanding of AWS services, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, API integrations, AWS configuration and deployments, cloud security, monitoring, logging, reliability, scalability and cost efficiency
- Desirable: experience with API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch and IAM
- Desirable: experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform
- Desirable: experience with Node.js and the wider TypeScript ecosystem
- Desirable: experience designing RESTful or GraphQL APIs
- Desirable: experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Desirable: experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and Docker, event-driven messaging systems, cloud security, observability, performance optimisation, large-scale public-facing digital services, and regulated or security-conscious environments
Core Competencies
Proficient in designing and developing high-quality backend services using TypeScript and AWS, with a strong focus on serverless architecture and API development. Demonstrates expertise in clean code practices, automated testing, and collaboration within agile teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- TypeScript Proficiency
- AWS Cloud Services Experience
- Serverless Architecture Development
- API Development and Integration
- Automated Testing and CI/CD
Hard Skills
- Backend Service Development
- API Development
- Serverless Application Development
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Automated Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- Clean Code Practices
- Version Control with Git
- Performance Optimization
- Diagnosing Application Defects
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Mentoring
- Problem-Solving
- Technical Documentation
- Agile Teamwork
Industry Keywords
- Cloud-Native Solutions
- Scalable Backend Services
- Security and Privacy
- Resilience
- Regulated Environments
Tools & Technologies
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- DynamoDB
- S3
- SQS
- SNS
- EventBridge
- CloudWatch
- Infrastructure as Code
- Docker
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