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