Software Engineer AWS

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• We ideally have strong hands-on experience with Node.js and/or TypeScript, alongside modern JavaScript.
• We have experience with AWS, particularly Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and IAM.
• We have experience using Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
• We have experience with automated testing, ideally Jest.
• We have experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• We have experience building REST APIs and event-driven architectures.
• We understand cloud security fundamentals including IAM, least privilege and secrets management.
• We have experience with agile software engineering and full lifecycle delivery.
• Experience with React or another modern frontend framework is a bonus.
• Experience with Java, Go, C#, Rust or another strongly typed language is a bonus.
• Experience with internal developer platforms or shared engineering services is a bonus.
• Experience with AWS Connect, voice, telephony or contact centre technologies is a bonus.
• Experience with event streaming technologies such as Kinesis, EventBridge, Kafka or SQS/SNS is a bonus.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS and SNS.
• Develop clean, maintainable and well-tested TypeScript / Node.js services.
• Build RESTful and event-driven APIs across microservices and distributed workloads.
• Own features end-to-end, from requirements and design through to testing, deployment and incident response.
• Design and manage AWS infrastructure using CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar.
• Implement monitoring, alerting and observability across production environments.
• Work with AWS IAM, secrets management and security best practices.
• Collaborate with product, platform and DevOps teams to deliver scalable engineering solutions.
• Contribute to technical design, documentation, runbooks and architectural decisions.

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Frontend
• GitHub
• IAM
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Jest
• Kafka
• REST
• React
• Rust
• Security
• Serverless
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• microservices
• NodeJS

More:

We are hiring an AWS Software Engineer in Nottingham with a hybrid working pattern of 3 days per week in the office. You will join an engineering team building cloud-native applications and internal platforms, working across serverless and event-driven architectures, infrastructure as code and CI/CD. This role offers genuine ownership across software engineering, cloud infrastructure and automation, with the opportunity to work on production-grade software and help shape technical decisions.

last updated 37 week of 2026