Back End Development Engineer

Required Skills

• Java
• typescript
• aws
• ec2
• lambda
• DynamoDB
• IaC
• AWS CDK
• Back End

Back End Development Engineer – Contract (12 months)

London | Onsite - Global Big 4/FAANG

We’re hiring an experienced

Back End Engineer to work on large‑scale, cloud‑nativeedge and gateway platformshandling high‑throughput, security‑critical traffic. This is a Senior Back End Engineer role focused on keeping a prominent

Global Video platformfast, reliable, and secure at massive scale, requiring strong experience with distributed systems, AWS, and production environments.

What you’ll do

• Build and operate backend services and AWS infrastructure
• Improve availability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Take part in on‑call and incident response

Key skills

• Javaand Type Script
• AWS(EC2, Lambda, Dynamo
  
  DB, NLB, Elasti Cache)
• Generative AIFluency
• Distributed systems,networking fundamentals
• Infrastructure as code / IaC(AWS CDK)
• Production operations experience

Why apply

• Mission‑critical systems at scale with a Global brand
• High ownership, real impact project
• 12‑month initial contract

This is a 12 month maternity cover contract that can extend, working on a huge name in global media and video. The role is an onsite role, 5 days per week in London (City/Shoreditch) working within a team of experts