Lead Engineer
Job Description Role Purpose As a Lead Engineer, you’ll be the technical backbone of your squad (of around 5-7 engineers) - leading from the front, writing code daily, and setting the standard for high-quality engineering.
You’ll work side by side with an Engineering Manager, ensuring your squad is delivering scalable, well-architected software, while collaborating closely with a Product Manager to build and launch new products and services as a partnership. This is a hands-on role, with a strong focus on designing, coding, and problem-solving.
You’ll be the most experienced engineer in the squad, guiding senior engineers, responsible for refining technical requirements, making key architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers to help them grow. With modern, cloud-native technologies (including Typescript, AWS, GraphQL) and the freedom to approach problems with fresh thinking, you’ll be building greenfield systems from the ground up.
Expect to embed AI, automation, and best-in-class engineering practices into everything you develop. If you love writing great code, solving complex technical challenges, and shaping the direction of a team, this role gives you the autonomy, responsibility, and impact to do just that.
Key Responsibilities Lead the Design & Development - Architect, build, and deploy scalable, high-performance software solutions, covering both client-side and server-side applications. Technical Leadership - Guide the squad in technical decision-making, ensuring the team follows best practices in code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance.
Hands-On Engineering - Spend most of your time writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software. Full Stack Development - Build any necessary user-interfaces in collaboration with our UX team, and develop well-functioning APIs, and services. Mentorship & Coaching - Support and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
Cloud & Infrastructure - Deploy and manage applications on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads. Quality & Testing - Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, and CI/CD, ensuring deployments are secure and reliable. Knowledge, Skills, and experience required Tech stack - We use TypeScript (Node.js & React), AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo.
You’re comfortable with all of these, and have extensive knowledge of JavaScript more generally, the AWS ecosystem, and running containerised applications. Past Experience - You are currently a Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers.
API & Database Development - You have experience building and running robust, always-on APIs (both RESTful and GraphQL-based) and underlying services/apps including the databases that underpin them. Test-Driven Development - You're very familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact. Cloud & DevOps - You can build, deploy and run your systems end-to-end, with no manual configuration or intervention. We use Terraform and Helm.
CI/CD - You have plenty experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) for deployments. Observability Mindset - You believe in measuring everything. You’ve worked with DataDog (or similar) to ensure your team has the necessary visibility into system health. Tooling & Collaboration - Comfortable working with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows.
Mentorship & Leadership - You’ve mentored engineers at all levels, providing guidance, reviewing designs, and ensuring your team stays on the right track. Self-Starter & Problem-Solver - Ability to take a product challenge and develop a working technical solution, balancing pragmatism with engineering excellence. Reward & Benefits: What's in it for me?
We want our people to feel recognised, supported and able to thrive both at work and beyond it. We offer a competitive reward package designed to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing, alongside opportunities to learn, develop and be recognised for the contribution you make. Benefits vary by role and location, and full details will be shared as part of the application process.
Equal opportunities: Our commitment to inclusion Collinson Group is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences, and believe that different perspectives make our business stronger. Collinson Group is powered by a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity.
Our employee experience brings together everything that makes us unique: our strong values, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programmes, and our inclusive culture. Most importantly, it’s our people who make the difference. At Collinson Group, we’re curious, hardworking, humble, and focused on creating impact together, which is why we’re proud to be recognised as a top workplace. Better journeys start here — including your own.
Join a growing global business where you can solve meaningful challenges, collaborate with talented people around the world and help shape the future of travel, loyalty and customer experience. Bring your perspective, grow beyond your role and make an impact that reaches beyond profit. Your next journey could start here We are always interested in meeting talented people who share our ambition.
Join our talent community and tell us more about your experience, interests and aspirations. Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch when an opportunity matches your skills. Join our talent community At Collinson Group, our culture is shaped by how we work as much as what we achieve. We are curious, ambitious and grounded, and we believe the strongest ideas are built together.
Our values — Do the Right Thing, Take Action, One Team and Act Smarter — guide the decisions we make, the way we treat one another and how we deliver for our clients, customers and partners. We want everyone to have the opportunity to do meaningful work and fulfil their potential.
Through learning and development, recognition, wellbeing, inclusion and our commitment to sustainability and community impact, we create an environment where people can grow, contribute and feel that they belong.
