Senior Full Stack Developer (Node.js / React / AWS) Job Overview
We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer with strong hands on experience in Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, and AWS. This role is suited to a developer who can build secure, scalable, resilient, and high performing applications, and contribute to modern cloud native and event driven solutions. The ideal candidate will combine strong engineering fundamentals with practical experience building and supporting robust services across backend, frontend, and AWS environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js
- Build modern, responsive, and maintainable frontend applications using React
- Develop and support cloud native solutions on AWS
- Work with PostgreSQL for schema design, query development, optimisation, and data integrity
- Build and support integrations using AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch
- Implement event driven, asynchronous, and resilient processing patterns where required
- Contribute to technical design and translate agreed solutions into robust implementations
- Apply engineering best practices across security, performance, scalability, reliability, testing, and maintainability
- Support troubleshooting and incident resolution across environments
- Collaborate with architects, QA, DevOps, product, and other engineers to deliver end to end features
- Participate in code reviews, sprint ceremonies, release activities, and continuous improvement
- Mentor junior developers and help raise overall engineering quality within the team
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong hands on experience in Node.js backend development
- Strong experience with React for frontend application development
- Good experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases
- Strong hands on experience with AWS, including services such as Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch
- Good understanding of cloud native, serverless, and event driven architecture patterns
- Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and service to service integrations
- Good understanding of secure coding, scalability, performance optimisation, resilience, and observability in distributed systems
- Experience with Git, branching strategies, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with automated testing approaches across backend and frontend
- Strong debugging, problem solving, and communication skills
- Experience working effectively in Agile delivery teams
Desirable Skills
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience with Docker and container based deployment patterns
- Experience with monitoring and operational support in AWS environments
- Experience using GitHub Copilot or similar AI assisted development tools
- Experience delivering enterprise, government, or regulated digital services
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