AWS Backend Engineer (Inside IR35)
Posted 1 week ago by TEKsystems
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior AWS Engineer role focuses on backend engineering, specifically enhancing Lambda functions and ensuring the resilience of step functions. The position requires expertise in Typescript and JavaScript, with an emphasis on best practices in AWS serverless architecture. The candidate will engage in the full software lifecycle and mentor other developers while collaborating with various teams. This is a contract position based in London, offering a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop using Typescript/JavaScript
- Participate in the full software lifecycle, including support and continuous integration
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team
- Provide guidance and mentoring to other developers on the team
- Share and generate new ideas, providing constructive and useful feedback to peers
- Work with internal teams, external vendors, and colleagues in the US
- Quickly build prototypes and collaborate with top experts in Machine Learning across the industry
Key Skills:
- At least 2 years of experience as an AWS software developer
- Expertise in working and following the best practices of using AWS serverless
- Proven ability to refactor and write performant and clean code
- Experience or ability to quickly pick up JavaScript/Typescript
- Experience working with CI/CD in an agile team
- Recent experience writing Lambda's in Typescript or Javascript, NOT python
- Experience with Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, AppSync/GraphQL, API Gateway, and Step Functions
- Responsibility for reviewing and testing your own and teammates’ code
- Restless attitude and a drive to always make things better and quicker
- AWS Certificates are a big bonus
Salary (Rate): 420.00
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT