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

About The RoleMethods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.

About The RoleMethods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.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.

Key responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain high-quality backend services using TypeScript

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

Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture and support colleagues through mentoring and knowledge sharing where appropriate

Requirements

Essential technical skills

Backend Development

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 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 and Serverless Development

Candidates should have a good understanding of:

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

Desirable technical skills

Experience with additional AWS services such as API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch and IAM

Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform

Experience with Node.js and the wider TypeScript ecosystem

Experience designing and developing RESTful or GraphQL APIs

Experience with relational and/or NoSQL 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 security-conscious environments

Benefits

Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience

Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society

Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership

A supportive and collaborative environment.

By joining us you can expect

Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training

Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme

Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes

Time off 25 days a year

Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution

Life Assurance of 4 times base salary

Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

As well as this, we offer

Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training

Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme

Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes

Time off 25 days a year

Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution

Life Assurance of 4 times base salary

Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

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