Frontend Software Engineer 2 (UK)

• Contribute to the design and implementation of product features that align with technical strategy, quality standards, and functional requirements.  

• Develop clean, maintainable code along with corresponding automated tests.  

• Participate in release planning, providing reliable estimations and delivering work that meets scope and quality expectations.  

• Engage in code reviews and other collaborative engineering practices.  

• Take part in daily standups, sprint ceremonies, and retrospective discussions.  

• Participate in security reviews of new development to help ensure compliance with Sophos security requirements and industry best practices.  

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, escalating complex problems to more senior team members when appropriate.  

Essential  

• Practical experience building backend services or APIs in a modern programming language (TypeScript preferred but not required).  

• Good understanding of API design, request/response lifecycles, and common integration patterns.  

• Experience writing clean, maintainable code accompanied by automated tests.  

• Awareness of secure coding practices, authentication/authorization concepts, and cloud native development.  

• Ability to debug production issues methodically and collaborate with senior engineers on complex problems.  

• Solid problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.  

Desirable  

• TypeScript backend development experience using Node.js/TypeScript for API or service layer development, understanding runtime considerations, type driven development, dependency injection, and module architecture.  

• Microservice architecture familiarity with distributed system concepts such as service boundaries, interservice communication, API gateways, observability, logging/metrics, configuration management, and handling failure modes gracefully (timeouts, retries, backoff, circuit breakers).  

• PostgreSQL (RDBMS) understanding of relational schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, transactions, database migrations, and ORMs or query builders commonly used with TypeScript (Prisma, Drizzle, Knex).  

• Experience with containerized development workflows (Docker and Kubernetes), cloud platforms, or serverless components.  

• Knowledge of messaging systems or event-driven patterns is a plus.  

• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.