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# NodeJS Engineer

- **Company:** Ocho People
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £55,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Node.Js, NoSQL, Commercial Software, Performance Tuning, Software Architecture, Responsive Web Design, TypeScript, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Backend, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Git Flow, Front End Software Development, Functional Programming, Api Design, Software Version Control, Serverless Computing, Docker
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5854395298

## About the Role

* 2-4 years' commercial software development experience
 * Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and API development
 * Solid frontend experience with React
 * Exposure to cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
 * Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases
 * An understanding of testing principles and clean code practices
 * A collaborative approach and clear communication skills

 * Experience in SaaS, platform-based, or EdTech environments
 * Exposure to serverless architectures
 * Experience with Docker or containerisation
 * Awareness of scalability and performance optimisation techniques

 * Join a purpose-led organisation focused on professional growth and learning
 * Work in a supportive, forward-thinking engineering team
 * Gain exposure to modern cloud architecture at scale
 * Clear progression opportunities as the business grows
 * Flexible working environment

## Description

We're working with an ambitious training and development company that is reshaping how organisations deliver learning. As their platform continues to scale, they're looking to hire an Intermediate Software Engineer with strong Node.js, React, and AWS experience to join their growing engineering team.

You'll join a collaborative product-focused team, contributing to a modern learning platform used by organisations across the UK and internationally. This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll work across both backend and frontend, delivering high-quality features in a scalable AWS environment.

You'll have the autonomy to own work end-to-end, while continuing to develop your technical depth and architectural understanding.

 * Develop and maintain backend services using Node.js
 * Build clean, responsive user interfaces using React
 * Deploy, monitor, and optimise applications within AWS
 * Contribute to technical design discussions and architectural decisions
 * Write well-structured, testable, and maintainable code
 * Collaborate closely with Product and Design to deliver user-focused features
 * Continuously improve performance, reliability, and security across the platform

 * Backend: Node.js (Express or similar)
 * Frontend: React (modern JavaScript/TypeScript)
 * Cloud: AWS (e.g., Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS)
 * CI/CD & Version Control: Git-based workflows and automated pipelines


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