Senior Node.js Engineer to $3500

About the project

Working through Emilus as part of a partnership with a global consulting company. The end client is a UK-based telecom. You'll join a distributed engineering team building scalable backend services on AWS serverless infrastructure.
 

Requirements

• 2+ years of backend development with Node.js / TypeScript
• Experience with AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, CDK (Infrastructure as Code)
• Comfortable writing unit, integration, and TDD-style tests
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodeBuild or similar)
• Ability to do meaningful code reviews, not just rubber-stamping
• Operational mindset: monitoring, scaling, resilience, security — not just "it works on my machine"
• Can translate product requirements into implementable tasks independently
   

Nice to have

• DynamoDB and/or Aurora PostgreSQL
• CloudWatch alarms and dashboards
• GitHub Actions with AWS CodeBuild self-hosted runners
• Grafana for availability monitoring
• Event-driven architecture / microservices experience
   

Responsibilities

• Develop and own complex backend features end-to-end
• Deploy and maintain serverless applications on AWS
• Write and maintain technical documentation
• Collaborate with architects and leads on design and task breakdown