Software Engineer - AWS

AWS Software Engineer Nottingham | Hybrid 3 days per week in the office

Were looking for a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to join an engineering team building cloud-native applications and internal platforms.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who enjoys writing clean code, automating infrastructure and building production-grade software on AWS. Youll work across serverless, event-driven architectures, infrastructure as code and CI/CD, taking ownership of your work from design and development through to deployment and monitoring.

What youll be doing Design, build and maintain serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS and SNS

Develop clean, maintainable and well-tested TypeScript / Node.js services

Build RESTful and event-driven APIs across microservices and distributed workloads

Own features end-to-end, from requirements and design through to testing, deployment and incident response

Design and manage AWS infrastructure using CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform

Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar

Implement monitoring, alerting and observability across production environments

Work with AWS IAM, secrets management and security best practices

Collaborate with product, platform and DevOps teams to deliver scalable engineering solutions

Contribute to technical design, documentation, runbooks and architectural decisions

What were looking for Youll ideally have strong hands-on experience with:

Node.js and/or TypeScript, alongside modern JavaScript

AWS, particularly Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and IAM

Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform

Automated testing, ideally Jest

CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or CircleCI

REST APIs and event-driven architectures

Cloud security fundamentals including IAM, least privilege and secrets management

Agile software engineering and full lifecycle delivery

Nice to have Experience with any of the following would be a bonus:

React or another modern frontend framework

Java, Go, C#, Rust or another strongly typed language

Internal developer platforms or shared engineering services</...