AWS Developer
Posted 7 days ago by Stott and May
£340 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The AWS Developer role involves joining the Digital Platform Team to enhance digital trading solutions and support existing cloud services. The position requires collaboration in an agile environment, focusing on delivering high-quality, scalable, and secure digital services. Candidates will work with modern serverless technologies and contribute to both development and operational activities. This role is ideal for ambitious software engineers looking to grow their expertise in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and team members in an agile environment
- Write clean, well-structured code aligned to engineering best practice
- Own, scope and deliver clearly defined work items, reporting progress in agile ceremonies
- Develop, support and maintain production-grade cloud services, ensuring performance, security and stability
- Utilise observability tooling to monitor live environments and remediate issues
- Implement automated testing and contribute to CI/CD pipeline excellence
- Participate actively in code reviews and contribute to coding standards and engineering quality
- Produce and maintain technical documentation
- Maintain strong working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and technical partners
- Demonstrate continuous learning and promote engineering excellence and best practice
Key Skills:
- Strong experience building API solutions, including API management (eg Apigee), versioning and developer onboarding
- Proven experience developing AWS serverless applications, including Lambdas and Step Functions
- Hands-on experience in Typescript
- Knowledge of event-driven integration patterns
- Experience developing cloud-native applications on AWS
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling (eg Jenkins, Bamboo, Git)
- Experience with both SQL and NoSQL data models
- Good understanding of security standards and secure coding practices
- Experience with automated testing and modern software engineering standards
- Proven experience working in agile (Scrum/Kanban) delivery environments
- Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Salary (Rate): £340 per day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Job Title: AWS Developer
Location: London (2-3 days on site per week)
Contract Duration: Until 30/06/2026
Day Rate: £340 per day (Inside IR35)
Role Details
We are seeking a talented and driven AWS Developer to join our Digital Platform Team, working on the continued evolution of our digital trading roadmap and supporting existing cloud-based solutions. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious software engineer eager to work with modern serverless technologies and gain valuable experience in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment.
You will contribute to the delivery of high-quality, scalable and secure digital services, working closely with the Product Owner, Scrum Master and wider technical team to support both development and run activities..
Key Responsibilities
* Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and team members in an agile environment
. Write clean, well-structured code aligned to engineering best practice
. Own, scope and deliver clearly defined work items, reporting progress in agile ceremonies
. Develop, support and maintain production-grade cloud services, ensuring performance, security and stability
. Utilise observability tooling to monitor live environments and remediate issues
. Implement automated testing and contribute to CI/CD pipeline excellence
. Participate actively in code reviews and contribute to coding standards and engineering quality
. Produce and maintain technical documentation
. Maintain strong working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and technical partners
. Demonstrate continuous learning and promote engineering excellence and best practice
Required Skills & Experience
* Strong experience building API solutions, including API management (eg Apigee), versioning and developer onboarding
. Proven experience developing AWS serverless applications, including Lambdas and Step Functions
. Hands-on experience in Typescript
. Knowledge of event-driven integration patterns
. Experience developing cloud-native applications on AWS
. Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling (eg Jenkins, Bamboo, Git)
. Experience with both SQL and NoSQL data models
. Good understanding of security standards and secure coding practices
. Experience with automated testing and modern software engineering standards
. Proven experience working in agile (Scrum/Kanban) delivery environments
. Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable Skills
* Integration design and delivery experience
. Experience with Infrastructure as Code - AWS CDK preferred (Terraform beneficial)
. Experience supporting and monitoring production systems (eg Splunk, Datadog, AWS observability tooling)