Backend Developer, Methods
AWS, Typescript, Serverless Architecture, AWS Lambda
IT services consultancy
Posted today
IT services consultancy
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help safeguard public-facing services and apply digital thinking to make sure the future of our public services is centred around our citizens.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 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
Our take
The UK public sector has long understood the need for digital transformation, but antiquated systems and outdated processes can make even the most ambitious plans for adaptation fall short. Methods has existed for more than 30 years to assist government departments and agencies make the leap, helping them understand the possibilities of digital transformation and guiding them through strategic planning, data migration and implementation phases.
Methods is an acknowledged leader in IT consultancy within the public sector, praised for their human touch and focus on sustainability which it believes sets it apart from firms. Indeed it is trusted by huge swathes of the UK public sector including the NHS, the Office for National Statistics, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence, to name just a few.
Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in mid-2022. This acquisition will help to reinforce Method's position as a leading player in the public sector while also allowing it to broaden its role in the private sector. It is poised for growth and is investing heavily in talent to make this a reality.
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Company 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
- Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
- Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
- Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Pizza Thursday monthly, weekly social in the office and commitment to charitable causes
- Time off 25 days a year
- Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
- Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
- 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)
- Benefits Platform offering various retail and leisure discounts
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Pat Crossley-Smith
(Executive Director)Previously worked in Agile Product at BUPA and Senior Manager in Development at British Airways.
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