Lead Backend Engineer (Typescript, Nodejs)

Role overview

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to provide technical leadership for an omnichannel API platform supporting a large Australian retailer. This platform plays a critical role in enabling consistent digital experiences across web, mobile, and in-store channels. The role combines expert-level Node.js and TypeScript engineering with architectural ownership, technical decision-making, the management of advanced AWS infrastructure and team leadership.

Key responsibilities

- Own the technical direction and evolution of the GraphQL-based omnichannel API platform

- Define and enforce API standards, schema governance, and engineering best practices in a Node.js/TypeScript environment

- Define and manage cloud resources using AWS CDK (TypeScript), ensuring infrastructure is versioned and scalable

- Remain hands-on, contributing to key parts of the codebase and infrastructure-as-code

- Lead technical design discussions and guide solution approaches across teams

- Manage technical risks, dependencies, and non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, and security

- Mentor and support engineers, helping grow capability within the team

- Collaborate effectively with hybrid teams across Vietnam and Australia

- Extensive experience designing and delivering large-scale backend or API platforms

- Expert proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of asynchronous programming and type safety

- Advanced proficiency in AWS CDK; ability to define and manage complex infrastructure (ECS, Fargate, VPC, ALB) via code

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably on AWS (CodeBuild, CodePipeline)

- Strong background in backend engineering and distributed system design - Experience acting as a technical lead or engineering lead on complex platforms

- Ability to balance hands-on delivery with longer-term architectural thinking

- Strong communication skills, able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

- Experience delivering eCommerce or omnichannel retail platforms at scale

- Experience working in enterprise or highly integrated environments

- Exposure to modern DevOps practices

About Mindera

At Mindera, we craft software with people we love.

We are 1000+ techies working from anywhere in the world who love to implement the best engineering practices and use the latest tech stack to deliver web and mobile applications for over 100 well-known international clients since we started.

We partner with our clients to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, and the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work, and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile and collaborative environment.

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