Senior Software Engineer II

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