Backend Engineer - Typescript
On site
London, United Kingdom
£ 85,000 / year
Full Time
24-04-2025
Job Specifications
A leading asset management firm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with expertise in Typescript to join their dynamic cybersecurity team. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud-based cybersecurity services, protecting hundreds of thousands of clients across the UK and Europe.
What you'll do:
Specialise in Typescript with expertise level
Develop and enhance modern cloud-based cybersecurity services across all layers
Build solutions to detect and prevent account takeover attempts by bad actors
Improve the efficiency and resilience of cloud services
Drive continuous improvement of technical standards, tools, and processes
Collaborate with the Product Owner to transform business needs into technical requirements
Manage deployment and operations across development, testing, and production environments
What you bring:
Expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript building and consuming web services with node.js; familiarity with NestJS and microservices-based architectures is a plus
Experience in Cloud Computing and Cloud Services (preferred: AWS) and terraform
Solid understanding of REST APIs and good understanding of cloud security principles
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders
Knowledge of agile development methodologies; experience with the scrum framework is preferred
A passion for continuous learning and development, both technically and non-technically
Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates
About the Company
Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services to organisations of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. The businesses we partner with want to make things happen. And they need people to do it. They have goals. They have challenges. They want answers. We deliver the talent solutions they need to reach their goals. That might mean recruiting ... Know more
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