backend developer for public-sector digital services

Methods is a UK-based IT Services Consultancy with over 30 years of experience. It partners with central government departments, agencies, and private-sector clients to create people-centred, secure, end-to-end business and technical solutions, with a strong focus on public-sector digital services.

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality backend services using TypeScript;
• Design and implement solutions using serverless architecture and cloud-native development principles;
• Develop and maintain applications and services using AWS, including AWS Lambda;
• Build secure, scalable and reliable APIs and backend services;
• Translate user and business requirements into reliable, maintainable technical solutions;
• Write clean, well-tested and maintainable code following modern software engineering practices;
• Collaborate with frontend and mobile developers, designers, product managers, QA professionals and other technical specialists within an agile multidisciplinary team;
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews and architectural decision-making;
• Develop automated tests and contribute to continuous integration and continuous delivery processes;
• Investigate and resolve technical issues, defects, performance problems and production incidents;
• Consider security, accessibility, privacy, resilience, scalability and performance throughout the development lifecycle;
• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team;
• Help establish and maintain development standards, patterns and best practices;
• Contribute to an inclusive, collaborative engineering culture and support colleagues through mentoring and knowledge sharing where appropriate.

• Strong commercial experience developing backend services and APIs;
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript;
• Experience designing and developing solutions using serverless architecture;
• Strong practical experience with AWS cloud services;
• Strong experience developing and deploying applications using AWS Lambda;
• Understanding of event-driven and cloud-native application architectures;
• Experience designing secure, scalable and resilient backend services;
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and integrations with external or internal services;
• Experience with automated unit and integration testing;
• Experience using Git and modern software development workflows;
• Understanding of clean code, modularity, maintainability, version control and appropriate design patterns;
• Experience diagnosing and resolving application defects, performance issues and production problems;
• Good understanding of AWS Lambda, serverless application development, AWS services, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, API-based integrations, application configuration, environments, deployments, cloud security, access control, monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, reliability, scalability and cost efficiency;
• Nice to have: Experience with API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, Node.js, RESTful or GraphQL APIs, relational or NoSQL databases, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, Docker, messaging systems, cloud security best practices, observability, performance optimisation, large-scale or public-facing digital services, highly regulated or security-conscious environments.

• Autonomy to develop and grow skills and experience;
• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training;
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme;
• Social events and commitment to charitable causes;
• 25 Days of annual leave;
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution;
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary;
• Non-contributory Private Medical Insurance, including spouse and dependants;
• Non-contributory Worldwide Travel Insurance, including spouse and dependants.