Job
Software Engineer - TypeScript, Node.js & AWS
Salt
software-engineer-typescript-nodejs-aws-v1xgut
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Other
Description
Salt is currently hiring a Software Engineer for a client of ours in Amsterdam.
Role is freelance(kvk/zzp needed) for 12 months, paying around 95-100 euros an hour.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to design, build, deploy, and operate reliable, scalable software services. You’ll take end-to-end ownership of solutions, contribute to architecture and technical decisions, and work closely with product and engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, secure, and maintainable applications and APIs.
- Own solutions end-to-end — from design and development through testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Build reliable distributed systems using TypeScript/Node.js, AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, queues, workers, and orchestration .
- Design for resilience with timeouts, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, dead-letter handling, and graceful degradation .
- Apply strong testing practices, including unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Monitor and improve production systems using logs, metrics, traces, SLIs, SLOs, and meaningful alerts.
- Investigate production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement long-term reliability improvements.
- Contribute to architecture, technical design, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate effectively with product, engineering, and partner teams to clarify requirements and solve complex problems.
Must-Have Skills
- Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js and API development .
- Hands-on experience with AWS and serverless/distributed systems .
- Strong understanding of queues, workers, orchestration, scaling, retries, and idempotency.
- Experience with S3, DynamoDB, security, observability, testing, CI/CD, and production operations .
- Ability to independently deliver software from design through production.
- Strong programming fundamentals and experience writing clean, reusable, maintainable code.
- Experience with coding agents and modern AI-assisted development.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Requirements
Nivo: mid level
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