Company: Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location: Southampton
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you will join an established technology-led logistics business to build and modernise backend services using TypeScript and Node.js. You will work on APIs, integrations, and distributed systems to handle high-volume transactions while migrating to Google Cloud. You’ll contribute to AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery and own deployments from development through production support. This position blends legacy modernization with international expansion efforts, offering a meaningful opportunity to shape scalable, reliable platforms.
Pay / Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- option to buy or sell leave
- half-day birthday leave
- Pension, life assurance and Healthshield Cash Plan
- enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- employee assistance programme and wellbeing support
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services and APIs using TypeScript and Node.js
- Build reliable integrations with third-party systems
- Address distributed systems challenges related to retries, failures, and data consistency
- Modernise existing applications and migrate services to Google Cloud
- Leverage AI-assisted development and agentic workflows to speed delivery
- Take ownership of development from coding to deployment and production support
Key requirements
- Commercial experience with TypeScript, Node.js, APIs and distributed systems
- Understanding of cloud-based development
- Ability to work independently within a collaborative team
- Interest in AI-assisted development to improve productivity while maintaining quality
- ownership
- problem-solving
- collaboration
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- APIs
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Posted: November 7th, 2026