Tech Lead - Contract

Mindera are currently looking for an experienced Tech Lead to operate within a Platform Enablement team in the retail sector. This will be a small team that looks after capabilities that are shared across products and channels. For this role, previous experience with CRMs is essential, ideally Clavio but not limited to.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering expertise – deep backend development experience, building scalable APIs and microservices; broader experience with technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript or React is beneficial.
• Architecture & system design – proven ability to design and evaluate scalable services and integrations, applying appropriate architecture patterns while balancing product goals, security, reliability and long-term system health.
• Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure as Code – hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native solutions in AWS, using modern CI/CD practices and Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform and GitHub.
• Engineering quality & operational excellence – strong understanding of automated testing, code quality and security best practices, with experience troubleshooting distributed systems and using observability to improve performance and reliability.
• Technical leadership & collaboration – able to contribute to and influence technic