

Owen Thomas
JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
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This role is for a JavaScript Developer (Contractor) with 6+ years of backend experience, focusing on NodeJS, TypeScript, and AWS. The contract is for 6 months, paying £400-500/day, based in London with a hybrid work model.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
500
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🗓️ - Date
October 14, 2025
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Outside IR35
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
London Area, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#API (Application Programming Interface) #Monitoring #Code Reviews #Logging #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Datasets #Storage #JavaScript #Scala #Data Storage #TypeScript
Role description
JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
Opportunity:
We’re supporting an innovative, fast-moving founding team. They’re building an innovative B2C platform with lots of partnerships already signed up! Very exciting opportunity to take a lot of responsibility and work in a small team with proven founders and engineers - on a disruptive and data-heavy B2C application.
You’ll work closely with the founding team to build scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that deliver an exceptional user experience.
What You’ll Be Doing as a JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
• Develop, maintain, and optimize robust backend services and APIs that power our mobile and web platforms
• Design and implement low-latency event processing pipelines
• Ensure backend infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure
• Enhance database efficiency and refine data storage strategies
• Maintain comprehensive multi-layered test coverage
• Collaborate closely with frontend and mobile teams to define and deliver API contracts
• Set up and manage effective monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
• Influence architectural decisions and help establish engineering best practices
• Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers
• Explore and integrate new technologies to expand platform capabilities
• Work with product and design teams to convert requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Continuously refine development workflows and improve system performance
What You’ll Need as a JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
• 6+ years commercial experience in Backend technologies, with majority focused on NodeJS.
• Proven track record of start-up experience, working for cool innovative consumer b2c brands where you've taken ownership.
• Confidence working on huge datasets and complex API work
• Great communication skills and attitude to get your hands dirty across the stack and business challenges.
• Nice to have: Full stack experience, with TypeScript
JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
• Location: Remote
• Type: Contract, full-time
• Rate: Up to £500/day
• Start: ASAP
JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
Opportunity:
We’re supporting an innovative, fast-moving founding team. They’re building an innovative B2C platform with lots of partnerships already signed up! Very exciting opportunity to take a lot of responsibility and work in a small team with proven founders and engineers - on a disruptive and data-heavy B2C application.
You’ll work closely with the founding team to build scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that deliver an exceptional user experience.
What You’ll Be Doing as a JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
• Develop, maintain, and optimize robust backend services and APIs that power our mobile and web platforms
• Design and implement low-latency event processing pipelines
• Ensure backend infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure
• Enhance database efficiency and refine data storage strategies
• Maintain comprehensive multi-layered test coverage
• Collaborate closely with frontend and mobile teams to define and deliver API contracts
• Set up and manage effective monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
• Influence architectural decisions and help establish engineering best practices
• Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers
• Explore and integrate new technologies to expand platform capabilities
• Work with product and design teams to convert requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Continuously refine development workflows and improve system performance
What You’ll Need as a JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
• 6+ years commercial experience in Backend technologies, with majority focused on NodeJS.
• Proven track record of start-up experience, working for cool innovative consumer b2c brands where you've taken ownership.
• Confidence working on huge datasets and complex API work
• Great communication skills and attitude to get your hands dirty across the stack and business challenges.
• Nice to have: Full stack experience, with TypeScript
JavaScript Developer, Contractor, Backend Engineering | NodeJS, TypeScript, AWS | Disruptive Start-up, B2C | Rate £400-500/day (Outside) | 6-months | London, Hybrid
• Location: Remote
• Type: Contract, full-time
• Rate: Up to £500/day
• Start: ASAP