# Senior Back End Engineer I

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: Lisbon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €75K – €100K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thought Machine's mission is to rid the world's banks of legacy technology by developing modern banking foundations through core and payments technology that run natively in the cloud.

As a Senior Software Engineer I at Thought Machine, you will own and deliver highly complex, end-to-end engineering work items. You will look beyond immediate coding tasks to consider long-term system architecture, product strategy, and client outcomes.

In this role, you will act as a technical anchor for your team, solving ambiguous problems, guiding less experienced engineers, and actively shaping our technical and product roadmaps.

### Responsibilities

#### Technical Leadership

- Design and build highly reliable, secure, and scalable software solutions for complex problems.

- Contribute to team guidelines ensuring our services meet top-tier security, performance, cost, and reliability standards.

- Set a high bar for code quality by providing constructive, detailed feedback on design documents and pull requests.

- Investigate issues across multiple services in production, drive learning from operational incidents, and feed improvements back into our prioritisation process.

- Actively participate in our growth by leading technical interviews.

#### Product & Delivery

- Own work items from initial concept to production, creating structured delivery plans, managing dependencies along the way and owning delivery of these work items.

- Partner with Product Managers to prioritize features, translate client requirements into technical specifications, and ensure solutions align with our overarching product vision.

- Confidently own the resolution of incidents, coordinating mitigation, fixes, and post-mortem artifacts.

#### Collaboration & Mentorship

- Mentor and support less experienced engineers, helping them level up technically and adapt to Thought Machine’s engineering philosophy.

- Translate highly technical problems and architectural decisions into clear concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

### Requirements

- Strong proficiency in modern backend languages (ideally Go or Python) and experience building distributed, cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, gRPC, PostgreSQL).

- A proven track record of breaking down ambiguous, and complex problems into clear, deliverable milestones.

- Experience supporting high-throughput systems in production environments and diagnosing complex issues across distributed systems.

- A highly collaborative, feedback-receptive mindset focused on finding the best outcomes for our clients and business rather than defending personal preferences.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build consensus and document technical designs clearly.

### Benefits

- Highly competitive salary

- Voluntary Pension Plan (match up to 5%)

- Private Healthcare Insurance

- Comprehensive Life Insurance

- 25 days holiday plus public holidays

- Two charity days a year

- Daily Meal Allowance

- Access to outstanding learning materials and courses

- Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine

- All the latest tech you need

- Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks

- A talented and experienced team as your colleagues

- An environment where we encourage learning and progress

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Kubernetes
- AWS/GCP
- gRPC
- PostgreSQL

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