Description
Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology.
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Thought Machine, you will work across the stack to solve complex engineering problems. You will be responsible for designing and implementing end-to-end features, ensuring security, performance, scale, and user experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement end-to-end features across the stack, including web applications and backend services.
- Ensure your solutions are delivered with security, performance, scale, and user experience in mind.
- Write automated unit, integration, acceptance tests, etc.
- Interface with other engineering teams to ensure that features are added in a structured and coherent way.
- Managing and debugging your features from testing environments to production.
- Translating customer requirements into a clear plan that can be delivered via tasks.
- Collaborating as part of a cross-functional team of backend, front-end, and full-stack engineers.
Essential
- Experience with React and TypeScript.
- Proficiency in writing modern web applications.
- Experience writing REST APIs and services.
- A keen eye for detail and a passion for writing clean, readable, properly tested code.
- Experience in integrating automated tests into the development lifecycle.
- Interest in client-facing projects, including scoping requirements and defining deliverables.
- A proactive approach to learning and development.
Desirable
- Knowledge of banking/finance.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
- Proficiency in Golang or Python.
- An understanding of both UX and UI principles.
- Experience using Figma and UI frameworks.
- Visual design skills.
- Familiar with databases (SQL or NoSQL).
- Experience with client/server software architectures & networking, or microservice architectures.
- Experience using Kubernetes.
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 (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
- 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
- All the latest tech you need
- Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
- 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
- Two charity days a year
- Weekly food pop-up