Software Developer, Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Job in City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Area, EH1, Scotland, UK

Listing for: Harvey Nash Group

Full Time position
Listed on 2026-05-08

Job specializations:

Software Development
Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Web Developer, Java Developer

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 480 GBP Daily GBP 480.00 DAY

Location: City of Edinburgh

Software Developer

6-month contract

Edinburgh

Hybrid

Outside IR35

£480 per day

Harvey Nash's public sector client is currently looking to recruit a Developer to join their team based in Edinburgh for an initial 6-month period.

Description

An experienced developer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate a move from legacy on-prem registers to new cloud-native solutions. The focus of the work will be the collaborative development of new serverless micro-services using AWS Lambda functions and Type Script/JavaScript.

Essential Skills

AWS including:
- CDK
- Serverless (Lambda)
- S3
- API Gateway
- Cloud Formation
Type Script (or modern JavaScript)
Making excellent quality software with other people.
Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context, and to focus on delivering value.
Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
Excellent collaboration, communication and teamwork skills
Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards
Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development
Defining infrastructure-as-code

Desirable Skills

Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
Use of UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces

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