Software Engineering Manager - Security

The role

Engineering Managers lead complex technical projects and manage a group of engineers. You will define and deliver the security engineering roadmap, contribute to product strategy, and perform hands-on technical work.

What you will do

• Working with your team closely on defining and delivering our security engineering roadmap.
• Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews.
• Measuring your team's impact.
• Contributing to product strategy.
• Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives from recruitment to team processes.
• Operate collaboratively with other Thought Machine teams.
• Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development.
• Leading by example through code reviews and hands-on technical work.

Required qualifications

• 2+ years experience in engineering management of product-aligned teams.
• Technical background to drive technical choices.
• Interpersonal skills to communicate with Product Managers and client representatives.
• Knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and maintaining security for modern technology stacks similar to AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Go/Python.
• Comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats as a team evolves.

Nice to have

• Experience in defining roadmaps, technical architecture, and deliverables.
• Experience in balancing risk management with company objectives and opportunities.
• Awareness and experience with well-architected security frameworks such as CSA-CCM, OWASP SAMM, or similar cloud, infrastructure, or application security frameworks.
• Existing experience building and operating security for distributed systems at scale.
• Previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.
• Previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.
• Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc).

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

About the company

Thought Machine develops core and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud to rid the world's banks of legacy technology. The company has more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon.