# 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, respons

- **Id**: 3877232
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/collinson-lead-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T16:54:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T10:53:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4534
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Loyalty Programs, Property & Casualty Insurance, Business Travel

## Company

- **Id**: 1593
- **Name**: Collinson
- **Domain**: collinsongroup.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/collinson>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.824
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Jest** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Pact** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **MongoDB** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:54:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:7, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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