Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer (GraphQL Specialist) | Contract | TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL | Large-Scale Media Platform | £500-600/day Outside IR35 | 6 Months | London Hybrid 2 days
Posted 1 day ago by Owen Thomas | Pending B Corp™
£600 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer (GraphQL Specialist) involves scaling engineering capabilities for a large-scale media platform. The position requires deep expertise in GraphQL and experience in building high-performance applications using TypeScript and Node.js. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to design and evolve API architecture while ensuring performance and reliability. This contract role is hybrid, based in London, and offers a competitive daily rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and evolve GraphQL schemas and API architecture for large-scale consumer platforms
- Build and maintain high-performance backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Develop full-stack features across modern TypeScript applications
- Ensure APIs are scalable, secure, and performant under heavy traffic loads
- Collaborate with frontend teams to define clean, well-structured GraphQL contracts
- Improve API performance, observability, and reliability
- Contribute to architecture discussions and technical design decisions
- Work closely with platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable deployments
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code within an established engineering environment
Key Skills:
- Strong experience building production systems with Node.js and TypeScript
- Deep experience with GraphQL, particularly in designing and maintaining GraphQL schemas
- Experience building GraphQL APIs and resolvers
- Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and scalable backend architecture
- Comfortable collaborating across frontend and backend teams
- Experience working in high-performing engineering environments
- Full-stack experience with modern TypeScript frontend frameworks (nice to have)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): £600/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer (GraphQL Specialist) | Contract | TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL | Large-Scale Media Platform | £500-600/day Outside IR35 | 6 Months | London Hybrid 2 days
We’re supporting one of the UK’s largest consumer digital platforms as they scale their engineering capability across several high-traffic products used by millions of customers. They’re looking for Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineers with deep GraphQL expertise to help evolve and scale their API architecture. This role sits within a high-performing product engineering team responsible for building and maintaining critical services that power modern web and mobile experiences. You’ll play a key role in designing and evolving GraphQL schemas, improving API architecture, and delivering performant full-stack applications within a mature engineering environment. This is an opportunity to work on complex distributed systems at significant scale, collaborating with experienced engineers across backend, frontend, and platform teams.
What You’ll Be Doing | Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer (GraphQL Specialist) | Contract | TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL | Large-Scale Media Platform | £500-600/day Outside IR35 | 6 Months | London Hybrid 2 days
- Design and evolve GraphQL schemas and API architecture for large-scale consumer platforms
- Build and maintain high-performance backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Develop full-stack features across modern TypeScript applications
- Ensure APIs are scalable, secure, and performant under heavy traffic loads
- Collaborate with frontend teams to define clean, well-structured GraphQL contracts
- Improve API performance, observability, and reliability
- Contribute to architecture discussions and technical design decisions
- Work closely with platform and infrastructure teams to support scalable deployments
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code within an established engineering environment
What We’re Looking For | Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer (GraphQL Specialist) | Contract | TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL | Large-Scale Media Platform | £500-600/day Outside IR35 | 6 Months | London Hybrid 2 days
- Strong experience building production systems with Node.js and TypeScript
- Deep experience with GraphQL, particularly:
- Designing and maintaining GraphQL schemas
- Building GraphQL APIs and resolvers
- Improving API performance and query efficiency
- Experience working on large-scale consumer or platform products
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, and scalable backend architecture
- Comfortable collaborating across frontend and backend teams
- Experience working in high-performing engineering environments
- Nice to have:
- Full-stack experience with modern TypeScript frontend frameworks
- Experience working with high-traffic consumer platforms
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Please apply here and we will get back to you if it's a good fit for the client! :D