Lead Backend Software Developer Typescript

apartmentExpert Employment placeLondon scheduleFull-time business_center£163 - £85,000/year calendar_month 

TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, EventBridge, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Python for ML, JIRA, ConfluenceLead Backend Software Developer Typescript

Hybrid: 2 days a week in London

We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our small, high-impact software team, reporting directly to the CTO. You will take the lead in building and scaling a robust event-driven backend infrastructure in AWS, while also contributing across architecture, performance, and DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and build scalable backend services and APIs using TypeScript on a modern serverless AWS stack
Lead improvements in performance, reliability, and code quality
Improve and maintain CI CD pipelines, test automation, and internal tooling
Collaborate across teams — including support for Machine Learning workloads and Data Engineering
Contribute to architecture discussions, technical documentation, and internal best practices

Key skills: TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, EventBridge, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Python for ML, JIRA, Confluence

Key skills:

Five years’ experience in backend engineering
Advanced skills in TypeScript and modern AWS especially Lambda, Kinesis, EventBridge
Experience with infrastructure-as-code CDK2 preferred
Strong attention to detail and ability to work autonomously
Comfortable writing clean tickets and documentation
Experience with Python and data streaming

Working knowledge of Agile tools like JIRA and Confluence

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