TypeScript AWS Serverless Engineer

Posted 3 hours 20 minutes ago by N Consulting Limited

Permanent
Full Time
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

We are looking for a highly hands-on AWS Application Developer with deep TypeScript expertise and strong serverless/event-driven engineering skills. This role requires building and operating production-grade solutions using AWS Lambda, EventBridge, Kinesis Streams, DynamoDB, and S3, while also contributing to architecture discussions, proposals, and stakeholder engagement with customer Enterprise Architects.

Key Responsibilities

1) Hands-on Engineering (Primary Focus)

Design, develop, and deploy TypeScript-based AWS services with a strong emphasis on serverless implementations

  • Build event-driven integrations using Amazon EventBridge including routing, filtering, replay/error handling patterns.
  • Implement stream processing / real-time ingestion using Amazon Kinesis Data
    Streams (consumer patterns, batching, checkpointing, scaling).
  • Develop resilient AWS Lambda functions with proper observability, retries, idempotency, and performance tuning.
  • Build data persistence and access patterns using Amazon DynamoDB (partition/sort key design, GSls, TTL, conditional writes).
  • Use Amazon S3 for object storage patterns event triggers, lifecycle policies, encryption, pre-signed URLs where applicable).

2) API & Integration Development

Implement APls using API Gateway and integrate with Lambda/DynamoDB.

Build async workflows and messaging patterns (SQS/SNS as needed) alongside 5xentBridge and streams.

3) Quality, Testing, and DevOps

  • Write comprehensive unit/integration tests (e.g., Jest; use LecalStack where appropriate).
  • Work within CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to release frequently and safely.
  • Ensure code quality, security posture, and automation standards are maintained.

4) Architecture, Proposals & Enterprise Architect Collaboration

  • Contribute to architecture design and optimization of AWS solutions (scalability, resilience, security).
  • Produce technical artefacts: solution approach, diagrams, assumptions, and estimates for proposals / SOW inputs.
  • Collaborate with customer Enterprise Architects and senior stakeholders to align designs to enterprise standards and governance.

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Have)

  • Strong TypeScript (hands-on) - building production services (Node.js runtime where applicable)
  • AWS Lambda (hands-)n) - serverless development and production support.
  • Amazon EventBridge (hands-on) - event-driven design and implementation.
  • Amazon DynamoDB (hands-on) - data modelling and performance-aware access patterns.
  • Amazon S3 (hands-on) - storage integration patterns and secure access controls.
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (hands-on) - stream ingestion/processing and consumer patterns.

Experience with supporting AWS services like API Gateway and CloudFormation (CDK).

  • Strong understanding of cloud architecture and ability to work with enterprise architecture stakeholders.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS secutity recommendations
  • Amazon 53 (hands-on) - storage integration patterns and secure access controls.
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (hands-on) - stream ingestion/processing and consumer patterns.

Experience with supporting AWS services like API Gateway and CloudFormation (CDK).

  • Strong understanding of cloud architecture and ability to work with enterprise architecture stakeholders.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS secutity recommendations

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS certifications: Developer Associate / Solutions Architect.
  • Experience with microservices and security best practices in cloud environments.