Lead Engineer

Collinson is a global loyalty and benefits company seeking a Lead Engineer to lead a team of software engineers in designing, coding, and problem-solving. The role involves working with modern cloud-native technologies and building greenfield systems from the ground up.

Requirements

• Tech stack: TypeScript (Node.js & React), AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo
• Past Experience: Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers
• API & Database Development: building and running robust, always-on APIs and underlying services/apps including the databases that underpin them
• Test-Driven Development: familiarity with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact
• Cloud & DevOps: ability to build, deploy and run systems end-to-end
• CI/CD: experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines
• Observability Mindset: ability to measure everything and work with DataDog (or similar)
• Tooling & Collaboration: comfortable working with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows
• Mentorship & Leadership: ability to mentor engineers at all levels
• Self-Starter & Problem-Solver: ability to take a product challenge and develop a working technical solution