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Salary: £30,000 - 55,000 per year
Requirements: Strong commercial experience with TypeScript in a back-end contextSolid hands-on AWS experience, including Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, and IAMProven DevOps background, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelinesPractical Terraform experience across real production environmentsComfortable working independently in a remote-first setup, with the flexibility to travel to Leeds monthlyStrong understanding of secure coding practices and cloud security fundamentalsPython experience, particularly for scripting, automation, or data-related tasks, is desirablePrevious experience working on Government or NHS/public sector digital programmes is desirableFamiliarity with GDS standards or working within regulated environments is desirable Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using TypeScriptTake ownership of AWS infrastructure, including provisioning, scaling, and cost managementBuild, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable deploymentsWrite and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, keeping environments consistent and reproducibleWork closely with product owners, architects, and other engineers to translate requirements into robust technical solutionsMonitor system performance and reliability, and proactively resolve issues before they impact usersContribute to technical decisions around architecture, tooling, and best practiceSupport security and compliance requirements relevant to public sector systemsDocument technical decisions and processes clearly for the wider team Technologies: AWSLambdaBackendCI/CDCloudDevOpsIAMSupportPythonSecurityTerraformTypeScript 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