Back End Developer

Salary: £30,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience with TypeScript in a back-end context
• Solid hands-on AWS experience, including Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, and IAM
• Proven DevOps background, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Practical Terraform experience across real production environments
• Comfortable working independently in a remote-first setup, with the flexibility to travel to Leeds monthly
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and cloud security fundamentals
• Python experience, particularly for scripting, automation, or data-related tasks, is desirable
• Previous experience working on Government or NHS/public sector digital programmes is desirable
• Familiarity with GDS standards or working within regulated environments is desirable

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using TypeScript
• Take ownership of AWS infrastructure, including provisioning, scaling, and cost management
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable deployments
• Write and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, keeping environments consistent and reproducible
• Work closely with product owners, architects, and other engineers to translate requirements into robust technical solutions
• Monitor system performance and reliability, and proactively resolve issues before they impact users
• Contribute to technical decisions around architecture, tooling, and best practice
• Support security and compliance requirements relevant to public sector systems
• Document technical decisions and processes clearly for the wider team

Technologies:

• AWS
• Lambda
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• IAM
• Support
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• TypeScript

More:

We are supporting a consultancy in the public sector looking for a Back-End Developer to help build, scale, and maintain backend services underpinning citizen-facing and internal systems. This is a hands-on engineering role with real ownership over infrastructure as well as code, so you will be just as comfortable in Terraform and AWS as you are writing TypeScript. The role is mostly remote, with one day a month in Leeds for team collaboration and planning. The contract is inside IR35, with a rate of £500/day and a duration until March 2027.

last updated 33 week of 2026