5+ years building and operating production REST APIs in Node.js & TypeScript Hands-on

AWS serverless

experience — Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, SNS, SQS, Glue, ECS — built and run in production, not just in tutorials Strong

REST API design skills

— resource modeling, HTTP semantics, versioning, idempotency, and OpenAPI/Swagger contract authoring Daily proficiency with

AI-assisted coding tools

— GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar — using them to accelerate development while owning every line committed Solid

testing discipline

— writes tests as part of development using Mocha/Chai/Sinon or Jest, targets 80%+ coverage across branches, functions, and lines Product mindset

— understands the business impact of the APIs they build, thinks about consumer experience, reliability, and value delivery — not just technical correctness Familiar with

security patterns

in regulated environments — encrypted secrets, least-privilege IAM, input validation, private networking Experience with

AWS CDK or CloudFormation

for infrastructure-as-code is a robust plus Financial services domain background is a plus

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📌 BackEnd Developer (API Engineering) (Toronto)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Toronto