# Senior Software Engineer II

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology.

As a Senior Software Engineer II, you operate with a wide sphere of influence. You will own complex, highly ambiguous technical challenges end-to-end, handling unexpected hurdles independently and gracefully.

### Technical Leadership

- Design & Build: Create solutions to highly complex problems, utilising a deep understanding of the codebase and architecture, and lead the direction for future technical change.

- Architecture & Standards: Utilise expertise to enable solutions to meet security, performance, cost, reliability, maintainability, and scalability requirements in a repeatable way and beyond existing capabilities, shaping the overall technical direction.

- Technical Direction: Keep a pulse on industry-leading software trends and best practices, introducing new tools and processes that shape Thought Machine's technical roadmap.

- Code Quality & Peer Review: Provide technical leadership and guidance to support others, ensuring their work items consider broader impact, long-term outcomes, and strategic direction end-to-end.

- Operational Excellence: Investigate complex issues spanning across services in non-local or production environments, and possess a deep understanding to drive improvements to operational and production support processes.

- Hiring: Lead technical interviews to actively evaluate the capability of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and leadership roles.

### Product & Delivery

- End-to-End Ownership: Own the solution to work items of undefined scope and high complexity end-to-end, handling unexpected complexity gracefully and independently.

- Product Vision: Utilise a deep understanding of the product to envision and contribute to future solutions, plans, and approaches.

### Collaboration & Mentorship

- Strategic Communication: Communicate seamlessly with stakeholders at all levels, managing leadership expectations while preserving the agility and focus of engineering teams.

- Team Growth: Inspire and empower others by example and through your guidance, knowledge sharing, and idea creation.

### What We’re Looking For

- Technical Expertise and Leadership: Deep expertise in modern backend languages (ideally Go/Python) and large-scale, cloud-native systems.

- Problem Solving: A proven ability to solve highly complex problems of undefined scope, utilising your expertise for decision-making that actively influences the strategic direction of the department.

- Production Operations: Extensive experience investigating complex issues across multiple environments, clusters, and products.

- Egoless Collaboration: A visionary mindset that does not accept the status quo.

- Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the capability to provide leadership across a variety of stakeholders.

### Benefits

- Highly competitive salary

- Pension plan (match up to 5%)

- Life insurance - three times annual salary

- Competitive maternity (six months fully paid) and paternity leave (four weeks fully paid)

- Shared parental leave

- 25 days holiday and bank holidays

- Flexible working hours

- Cycle-to-work scheme

- Electric car scheme

- Season ticket loan

- Access to outstanding learning materials and courses

- Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine

- Fresh fruit and cereals

- Healthy snacks and drinks

- Two charity days a year

- Weekly food pop-up

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- cloud-native systems
- large-scale systems
- modern backend languages

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