What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Strong experience in core AWS services, with a deep understanding of core AWS services, uses, and architecture best practices
- Key AWS knowledge is likely to include some or all of S3, EC2, Lambda, SNS, CloudFront, SQS, DynamoDB, IoT, VPC, Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk and API Gateway
- Infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform, Serverless or CloudFormation
- Highly proficient in one or more languages from our stack (Node.js, Typescript, React, AngularJS)
- Experienced with implementing unit/integration/component/performance testing as part of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Experience of developing and working with RESTful microservices
- Capable of using RDBMS / Non-SQL databases experience such as MongoDB
- Experience scripting in Bash or Python
- Experience of Linux administration
Nice to have
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Good commercial awareness
- Ability to mentor
- Desire to deliver excellent customer experience
- Experience with AWS services
- Proficiency in code quality and testing
- Experience with RESTful microservices
- Scripting skills (Bash or Python)
- Linux administration experience
Day to day
- Designing and developing high quality, testable software in cloud applications & services
- Working with product management and UI designers to implement new features with a highly usable and consistent look-and-feel
- Understanding current infrastructure and stack in order to employ best AWS solutions
- Creating reusable, effective, and scalable code
- Identifying bottlenecks and bugs in the system and develop solutions
- Contributing to the architecture of our applications and use of AWS services
- Debugging applications & services to support our customer service team in the field
- Ensuring that software is delivered to a high standard and rigorously tested
- Mentoring, coaching, guiding and supporting other Engineers (not line managing)
Hiring process
- Application deadline: 19 July 2024