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About the Role

Methods is seeking talented Backend Developers to join a digital delivery team focused on public-facing services. You will work within a multidisciplinary team to build, improve, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable digital services used by millions across the UK. This role offers the chance to work on meaningful public-facing technology and contribute to modern government digital services.

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

Demonstrable professional experience with backend development.
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 APIs, including RESTful APIs and integration with external or internal services.
Experience with automated testing, including unit and integration testing.
Experience using Git and modern software development workflows.
Understanding of software engineering principles including 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 and serverless application development.
Good understanding of designing applications using a serverless architecture.
Good understanding of AWS services and how they can be combined to build scalable solutions.
Good understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
Good understanding of API-based integrations and service-to-service communication.
Good understanding of managing application configuration, environments, and deployments within AWS.
Good understanding of cloud security and appropriate access-control principles.
Good understanding of monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting cloud-based applications.
Good understanding of designing solutions for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Backend Development
TypeScript
Serverless architecture
AWS
AWS Lambda
APIs
RESTful APIs
Automated testing
Unit testing
Integration testing
Git
Clean code
Modularity
Maintainability
Version control
Design patterns
API Gateway
DynamoDB
S3
SQS
SNS
EventBridge
CloudWatch
IAM
Infrastructure as Code
AWS CDK
CloudFormation
Terraform
Node.js
GraphQL APIs
Relational databases
NoSQL databases
CI/CD pipelines
Containerisation
Docker
Event-driven architecture
Messaging systems
Application monitoring
Observability
Logging
Performance optimisation

Location

UK-based

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Professional experience
Strong commercial experience
Strong practical experience
Strong experience
Good understanding

Benefits

Autonomy to develop and grow skills and experience
Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
A supportive and collaborative environment
Development access to LinkedIn Learning
Management development programme
Training
24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
Breakfast Tuesdays
Thirsty Thursdays
Pizza on the last Thursday of each month
Commitment to charitable causes
25 days a year time off
Salary Exchange Scheme pension with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
Non-contributory Private Medical Insurance (spouse and dependants included)
Non-contributory Worldwide Travel Insurance (spouse and dependants included)

About the Company

Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy partnered with central government departments and agencies.
Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, Methods applies skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration to create end-to-end business and technical solutions.
Methods' human touch, with people, technology, and data at its heart, focuses on creating value and sustainability for clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
Methods supports clients in project success while collaborating to share skill sets and solve problems.
Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.
Predominantly focused on the public sector, Methods is building a significant private sector client portfolio.