Senior Software Engineer

Collinson is a global loyalty and benefits company.

We use our expertise and products to craft customer experiences which enable some of the worlds

best known brands to acquire engage and retain the most demanding and choice-rich

particular our unique expertise and insight into high earning frequent travellers allows us to create

products and solutions for our clients that inspire greater customer engagement to drive more

profitable relationships enrich their travel experiences protect what matters and assist in in times of

need.

While specialising in Financial Services Travel and Retail we also support clients in multiple sectors.

We have worked with over 90 airlines 20 hotel groups and more than 600 financial institutions and

banks with clients including Accor Hotels Air France KLM American Express British Airways

Cathay Pacific Diners Club Mandarin Oriental Mastercard Radisson Hotel Group Sephora Visa

and Vhi.

We take our 30 years experience working with these kinds of household names in over 170

countries and help our clients to deliver the smarter experiences it takes to differentiate their

propositions and help them win deeper devotion with their customers.

Collinson is a privately-owned entrepreneurial business with 2000 passionate people working in 20

locations worldwide. Our solutions include Priority Pass the worlds best known airport experiences

programme while we are also the trusted partner behind many of the leading financial services

airline and hotel brands reward programmes and loyalty initiatives.

Purpose of the job

As a Senior Software Engineer youll be a key figure in one of our cross-functional teams designing

and building cloud-native greenfield products from the ground up. Youll take ownership of features

and new capabilities working closely with a Product Manager Engineering Manager and your

teammates to deliver high-quality software that is reliable scalable and secure.

Youll be hands-on every day; refining stories writing code reviewing pull requests and solving

interesting technical problems. Youll bring strong engineering practices to the team and help shape

the way we build software. While youre not expected to manage people your technical depth and

experience mean youll naturally become a point of reference for others on the team.

We have a modern TypeScript stack cloud-native environment containerised deployments and a

strong focus on automation observability and AI-enhanced development.

If you enjoy solving complex problems delivering high-impact features and being part of a high-trust

high-autonomy engineering culture wed love to have you onboard.

Key Responsibilities

Write clean efficient and testable code owning complex features and services from design

to deployment.

Work closely with your squad (PMs engineers QAs) to refine requirements scope technical

solutions and deliver great software.

Champion automated testing and CI/CD. Youll write unit integration and contract tests and

help make our systems robust and reliable.

Build deploy and monitor services in AWS using tools like Terraform Kubernetes and

GitHub Actions.

Take responsibility for the health performance and maintainability of the code you ship.

Help evolve our engineering standards and practices by sharing knowledge reviewing code

and learning from incidents.

Being a mentor and teacher to less experienced engineers.

Non-negotiable

5 years of experience in software development with a strong focus on TypeScript ( &

React) and excellent knowledge of JavaScript fundamentals.

Experience building and running production systems in AWS using tools like EKS Lambda

RDS.

Skilled in designing and building GraphQL and RESTful APIs with practical knowledge of

MongoDB PostgreSQL and Kafka.

Comfortable developing software within an event-driven architecture.

Deep knowledge of writing automated tests with Jest Pact and the principles of TDD.

Comfortable building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) for code

deployment primarily using Terraform.

Experience using DataDog (or similar) to monitor services and debug production issues.

Experience working in Agile environments using tools like Git Jira and Confluence with a

mindset of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Able to take a problem and run with it bringing a pragmatic product-focused approach to

software delivery

Personal Attributes

Show initiative: self-driven independent problem-solver who take ownership end-to-end

Innately curious: constantly questioning learning and seeking deeper understanding

Innovative: think outside the box and be creative and implement ideas that enhance our

systems - innovation is valued highly at Collinson

Communicative collaborator: share openly work across teams and integrate feedback

Strong analytical and investigative problem-solving skills

Hungry and eager to make a difference at a technical and operational level

The ability to get things done we dont like micro-management but we expect you to do the

right thing

An attitude of being proud of your code and taking ownership