AWS Software Engineer

Summary

Join City Electrical Factors (CEF) as a Lead Cloud Software Engineer and create tailored cloud solutions and tools to empower development teams. Collaborate with a global team, contributing to the City Technology Strategy and platform development. Enhance productivity and platform capabilities through hands-on development and team leadership. Utilize TypeScript, AWS SDK, and AWS CDK, while coaching and supporting team members. Establish best development practices and anticipate team needs, recommending learning opportunities. Lead with a drive to achieve and deliver value, fostering a culture of trust, empowerment, and innovation.

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience either as a line manager or technical lead
• Demonstrable experience of implementing team best practices, processes and tools for effective software delivery
• TypeScript
• AWS SDK / AWS CDK to develop stable, serverless-first shared code and platforms
• Experience with a range of AWS services for a serverless-first, microservices-orientated architecture such as: Compute: Lambda, ECS, Fargate
• Storage: S3, DynamoDB, RDS
• API Management: API Gateway, AppSync
• Orchestration: Step Functions, EventBridge
• Security: IAM, Cognito
• Networking: VPC, CloudFront, Route 53
• Git/GitLab

Responsibilities

• Lead with a drive to achieve and deliver value, instilling a culture of trust, empowerment, and innovation
• Actively contribute to team delivery, tooling, and technical capabilities
• Deliver and contribute to the City Technology Strategy
• Create and maintain custom SKDs, CDKs, authentication services and CLIs to enhance developer productivity and platform capabilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their unique requirements and provide tailored cloud solutions to empower them to excel
• Establish, revise and encourage best development standards and practices
• Understand and anticipate team development needs, recommending relevant learning options
• Coach and support team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Service Management principles
• Experience with either Vue or React
• Experience with various authentication methods
• Familiarity with integrating and utilising AWS Bedrock Services
• Experience or interest in developing and utilising AI technologies
• Experience or interest in context-specific data augmentation techniques for large language models