Senior Hands-On Tech Lead - Cloud-Native & AI

Collinson (Singapore); Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Collinson Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Engineer to be the technical backbone of a 5–7 person squad, writing code daily and setting high standards for quality.

You'll work with an Engineering Manager and Product Manager to design, build, and deploy scalable, cloud-native software using TypeScript, AWS, and GraphQL, embedding AI and automation across greenfield systems. This is a hands-on role with mentoring responsibilities and an emphasis on TDD, CI/CD, and observability.

Qualifications

• Lead Engineer or Tech Lead experience guiding a small software team.
• Experience building and running robust APIs (RESTful and GraphQL) and underlying services.
• Familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact.
• Ability to deploy and run systems end-to-end using Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD pipelines management with GitHub Actions and modern observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and deploy scalable, high-performance software for client-side and server-side applications.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance.
• Spend substantial time writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and maintaining quality.
• Collaborate with UX, build APIs, and deliver well-functioning services.
• Mentor engineers, promoting continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Deploy and manage apps on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Full stack engineering

Problem solving

Self-starter

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

AWS

EKS

Lambda

Aurora RDS

Kubernetes

GraphQL

Kafka

Mongo

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

DataDog

Confluence

Jira

Jest

Pact

Job description

Collinson Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Engineer to be the technical backbone of a 5–7 person squad, writing code daily and setting high standards for quality.

You'll work with an Engineering Manager and Product Manager to design, build, and deploy scalable, cloud-native software using TypeScript, AWS, and GraphQL, embedding AI and automation across greenfield systems. This is a hands-on role with mentoring responsibilities and an emphasis on TDD, CI/CD, and observability.