# Senior Software Engineer II

**Company**: Thought Machine
**Location**: Lisbon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: €100K - €120K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer II at Thought Machine, you will operate with a wide sphere of influence, owning complex technical challenges end-to-end and driving systemic, organisational change.

Your role will go beyond individual team delivery; you will shape the long-term technical direction of our platforms, align with our broader codebase, architecture, objectives, and goals, and act as a crucial link between senior leadership, external stakeholders, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities include:

- Technical Leadership: Design and build solutions to highly complex problems, utilise expertise to enable solutions to meet security, performance, cost, reliability, maintainability, and scalability requirements, and shape the overall technical direction.

- Product & Delivery: Own the solution to work items of undefined scope and high complexity end-to-end, handle unexpected complexity gracefully and independently, and drive delivery requiring effective and timely stakeholder management.

- Collaboration & Mentorship: Communicate seamlessly with stakeholders at all levels, manage leadership expectations, preserve the agility and focus of engineering teams, and inspire and empower others by example and through guidance.

Requirements:

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

- Problem Solving: Proven ability to solve highly complex problems of undefined scope.

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

- Egoless Collaboration: Receptive to new ideas, able to see how different approaches can be combined advantageously, and focused on finding solutions that improve company and client outcomes.

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

Benefits:

- Highly competitive salary (€100K - €120K)

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- cloud-native systems
- large-scale systems
- technical leadership

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