Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead who writes production code daily, sets the technical bar for the pod, and turns ambiguous ideas into reliable, scalable services. You will own design and delivery of full-stack features end to end, with a strong focus on LLM/AI integration and cloud-native architecture on AWS.

Key Responsibilities
Design, build and ship full-stack features using TypeScript, React and Node.js — hands-on coding is the core of this role.
Own technical design for recent Innovation initiatives: architecture, API contracts, data models and trade-off decisions.
Integrate LLM/AI capabilities into products and pipelines (e.g. AWS Bedrock, MCP-based tooling), including prompt design, evaluation and cost/latency tuning.
Architect and run services on AWS with a focus on scalability, reliability, observability and security.
Set and enforce engineering standards — code reviews, naming conventions, testing, documentation and secure coding practices.
Mentor engineers in the pod through pairing, reviews and design discussions.
Break down initiatives into deliverable increments; drive prototypes to production quickly and iterate on feedback.

Collaborate with Product, QA and DevOps to plan, release and support what the pod builds.





Must-Have Skills
Experience: 8+ years in software engineering, with recent hands-on full-stack delivery.
JS / TS: Expert-level JavaScript and TypeScript (strict typing, async patterns, modular architecture).
Full-stack: Strong React (hooks, state management, performance) and Node.js (REST APIs, background jobs, event-driven services).
LLM / AI: Hands-on integration of LLMs into real products — e.g. AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/OpenAI APIs, MCP, RAG, structured outputs.
AWS: Designing and operating workloads on AWS (e.g. Lambda, ECS, S3, SQS, API Gateway, IAM, CloudWatch).
Databases: Working experience with both MongoDB and PostgreSQL — schema design, indexing, query optimisation.
Design & quality: Proven ability to own system design, write explicit technical docs and review code rigorously.
Leadership: Transparent communicator who can lead technical discussions and mentor engineers.

Nice-to-Have
Document processing experience — XML, HTML, DOCX parsing/conversion pipelines.
Exposure to the scholarly publishing domain (journals, manuscripts, peer review, JATS).
Containerisation and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.

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