Job Vacancy senior full stack developer

Job Title
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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