Senior Engineer - AWS

As part of an engineering team, you'll use your software engineering skills and experience to build features, resolve issues, and address technical debt. You'll also bring a strategic lens to team processes and tooling, helping improve how the team operates and ultimately delivering valuable, high-quality software to customers.

What you'll be doing

• Build clean, maintainable features and resolve end-to-end issues, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, add business value, and meet quality standards.

• Contribute to strategies for managing technical debt, ensuring systems are secure, resilient, and reliable.

• Define and analyse test approaches to deliver the best possible customer experience, with a focus on security, usability, and accessibility.

• Conduct and participate in code reviews, considering functional and non-functional requirements such as performance, resiliency, maintainability, and security.

• Promote continuous improvement in team effectiveness and culture, supporting changes that enhance productivity and happiness.

• Build a collaborative environment, coaching and mentoring less experienced engineers.

• Research emerging application technologies, identify opportunities to apply them, and share learnings across the team.

• Ensure all customers and stakeholders are treated fairly and with respect.

• Technology-focused degree preferred, or equivalent demonstrable experience.

• Extensive knowledge of:

  • JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, AWS SDK & CDK, Python, React, HTML/CSS, Java, Spring, Terraform/CloudFormation

• Hands-on experience:

  • Building serverless applications in AWS

  • Building microservices in Java (Spring Boot)

• Strong understanding of clean code principles, design patterns, distributed systems, software testing, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

• Knowledge of application security.

• Additional desirable skills:

  • SQL, GraphQL, Maven

  • Frontend performance optimisation

  • API security and secure coding best practices

  • Git release strategies

• Nice to have: Postgres, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Feign, Quarkus.

• Proven track record in:

  • Delivering well-optimised and maintainable software features

  • Analysing and solving complex technical problems

  • Participating in effective code reviews with actionable feedback

  • Technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing team strategy

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