👨🏾‍💻 BACKEND ENGINEER (Node.JS) - 👩🏼‍🎓 ED-TECH START UP (Greater London)

👨🏾‍💻 BACKEND ENGINEER (Node.JS) - 👩🏼‍🎓 ED-TECH START UP

🎈The Headline:

We are proud to be partnering with a high flying, seed stage EdTech start up who are looking for a Mid Level Backend Engineer to help them build a next-generation ed-tech platform. Since landing a multi million £ seed round they have been working hard to launch their MVP which has been really well received by early customers. They are now looking to grow the backend development team to help drive new feature development for phase 2 of the app build.

They work in Node.JS and TypeScript to build cloud native, event driven microservices all hosted in AWS.

⏱ Job Type: Permanent

📍Location: Hybrid - 1 day per week in London office

💰 Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 + Share Options + Benefits

🔎 Your Experience:

• At least 2 years experience with Node.JS & TypeScript
• Expertise in constructing microservices and applications based on event-driven architecture.
• Proficiency in constructing APIs for internal and external application consumption.
• Familiarity with cloud computing, preferably with the AWS stack.
• Knowledge in navigating the Serverless framework and CDK landscape.
• Understanding the pros and cons of AWS Lambdas.
• Practical experience with DynamoDB.
• Capability to architect designs using tools such as Miro and LucidChart.
• Familiarity with unit testing and integration testing.
• Exposure to agile, lean, or extreme programming methodologies.
• A background rooted in Computer Science.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience with Auth0 or a comparable identity provider.
• Exposure to Github Actions or other CI/CD tools.
• Familiarity with app monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code solutions like AWS CDK or Terraform

🥳 Sounds like fun? Please send your CV in response to this advert and I'll arrange a call to get to know you better!

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