Backend Developer - AWS​/Typescript​/Serverless Architecture​/AWS Lambda

We are looking for talented Backend Developers to join a digital delivery team working on services that make a real difference to people across the UK. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team of developers, designers, product managers, delivery professionals and technical specialists to build, improve and maintain secure, scalable and reliable digital services used by millions of people.

You will be responsible for designing and developing backend services and APIs, working with cloud-based technologies and serverless architectures to deliver robust and maintainable solutions. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful public-facing technology while contributing to the continued development of modern government digital services.,

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality backend services using Type Script.
• Design and implement solutions using serverless architecture and cloud-native development principles.
• Develop and maintain applications and services using AWS, including AWS Lambda.
• Build secure, scalable and reliable APIs and backend services.
• Translate user and business requirements into reliable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Write clean, well-tested and maintainable code following modern software engineering practices.
• Work collaboratively with frontend and mobile developers, designers, product managers, QA professionals and other technical specialists within an agile multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews and architectural decision-making.
• Develop automated tests and contribute to continuous integration and continuous delivery processes.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues, defects, performance problems and production incidents.
• Consider security, accessibility, privacy, resilience, scalability and performance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Help establish and maintain development standards, patterns and best practices.

• Strong commercial experience developing backend services and APIs.
• Strong proficiency in Type Script.
• 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 working with APIs, including RESTful APIs and integration with external or internal services.
• Experience with automated testing, including unit and integration testing.
• Experience using Git and modern software development workflows.
• Understanding of software engineering principles including clean code, modularity, maintainability, version control and appropriate design patterns.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving application defects, performance issues and production problems.

• AWS Lambda and serverless application development.
• Designing applications using a serverless architecture.
• AWS services and how they can be combined to build scalable solutions.
• Event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
• API-based integrations and service-to-service communication.
• Managing application configuration, environments and deployments within AWS.
• Cloud security and appropriate access-control principles.
• Monitoring, logging and troubleshooting cloud-based applications.
• Designing solutions for reliability, scalability and cost efficiency.

• Experience with additional AWS services such as API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, Cloud Watch and IAM.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK, Cloud Formation or Terraform.
• Experience with Node.js and the wider Type Script ecosystem.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful or GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
  
  Experience with containerisation and Docker.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems.
• Familiarity with security best practices for cloud-based applications.
• Experience with application monitoring, observability, logging and performance optimisation.
• Experience working with large-scale or public-facing digital services.
• Experience working within highly regulated or…