Cambridge 1-2 days per week
No Sponsorship
£80,000 - £100,000
We’re working with a fast-growing, mission-driven company in the HealthTech space, building secure and scalable platforms that process sensitive data at scale. They’re looking for a Senior AWS Engineer to play a key role in shaping their backend services and data infrastructure.
This is a hands-on position offering real ownership across systems, pipelines, and cloud environments.
💻 The Role You’ll design, build, and operate backend services and data pipelines that underpin critical applications. It’s a broad role combining engineering, architecture, and infrastructure.
🛠 What You’ll Be Doing
Building serverless and containerised services on AWS
Designing data pipelines and analytics workflows
Developing event-driven architectures
Creating and maintaining APIs (including GraphQL)
Working with both NoSQL and relational databases
Writing high-quality, production-ready Python
Managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools
Enhancing scalability, reliability, and observability⚙️ Tech Environment Modern cloud-native stack centred around AWS, containerisation, infrastructure as code, and data tooling.
🔎 What You Bring
A strong background in backend and/or data engineering at a senior level
Solid experience designing and working with cloud-based, distributed systems (ideally AWS)
Confidence owning systems through the full lifecycle, from build to production support
A practical, solutions-focused approach with a sense of accountability
Ability to collaborate effectively in a hybrid team environment➕ Additional Experience (Nice to Have)
Exposure to regulated industries or environments handling sensitive data
Familiarity with building systems where security and data integrity are critical📍 Working Setup Hybrid working with flexibility, combined with regular in-person sessions for collaboration and team alignment
Salary description
£80000.00 - £100000.00 per year