Senior Software Engineer I
Thought Machine3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable, secure, scalable software solutions for complex problems.
- Contribute to architecture, security, performance, cost, and reliability standards.
- Review design documents and pull requests and uphold high code-quality standards.
- Investigate production issues across multiple services and improve systems based on operational incidents.
- Own work items end to end, including delivery planning, dependency management, and production delivery.
- Partner with Product Managers to prioritize features and translate client requirements into technical specifications.
- Own incident resolution, including mitigation, fixes, and post-mortem documentation.
- Lead technical interviews and mentor less experienced engineers.
- Communicate technical problems and architectural decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in modern backend languages, ideally Go or Python.
- Experience building distributed, cloud-native systems using technologies such as Kubernetes, AWS or GCP, gRPC, and PostgreSQL.
- Proven ability to break down ambiguous and complex problems into clear, deliverable milestones.
- Experience supporting high-throughput production systems and diagnosing complex distributed-system issues.
- Collaborative, feedback-receptive approach focused on client and business outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including documenting technical designs and building consensus.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary and a pension plan with matching up to 5%.
- Life insurance of three times annual salary.
- Six months of fully paid maternity leave, four weeks of fully paid paternity leave, and matched shared parental leave.
- 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- Flexible working hours.
- Cycle-to-work scheme, electric car scheme, and season ticket loan.
- Access to learning materials and courses.
- Subsidized sports and hobby clubs.
- Latest technology and workplace food and drink provisions.
- Two charity days per year and a weekly food pop-up.
- Supportive environment with opportunities for learning and career progression.
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About Thought Machine
Thought Machine builds cloud-native core and payments platforms for banks, centered on Vault Core, a microservices, API-driven core banking system delivered in the cloud. It sells enterprise software and services to banks and financial institutions, with engineers embedding to implement and integrate systems. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global banking markets and focuses on replacing legacy core infrastructure.