Senior Software Engineer II
Thought Machine3 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build solutions for highly complex, ambiguous technical problems.
- Shape architecture, engineering standards, technical direction, and adoption of new tools and practices.
- Provide technical leadership through code review, guidance, mentoring, delegation, and knowledge sharing.
- Investigate complex production and non-local issues across services, environments, clusters, and products.
- Drive improvements to operational and production support processes.
- Own high-complexity work items end to end and manage delivery across teams or departments.
- Contribute to product strategy, vision, future solutions, and long-term roadmaps.
- Lead technical interviews for subject matter experts and leadership roles.
- Communicate with senior stakeholders, build consensus, and drive organizational change.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in modern backend languages, ideally Go or Python.
- Experience with large-scale, cloud-native systems.
- Proven technical leadership solving highly complex problems of undefined scope.
- Extensive experience investigating issues across multiple environments, clusters, and products.
- Ability to drive systemic improvements to operational and production support processes.
- Strong mentoring, collaboration, stakeholder management, communication, and organizational change skills.
- Ability to influence strategic departmental direction and uphold engineering best practices.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary, pension matching up to 5%, and life insurance equal to three times annual salary.
- Six months of fully paid maternity leave, four weeks of fully paid paternity leave, and 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, and company-provided technology.
- Fresh fruit, cereals, snacks, smoothies, drinks, and weekly food pop-ups.
- Two charity days per year.
- Inclusive workplace with equal access to professional development.
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.