Thought Machine
Senior Back End Engineer I
Portugal, Lisbon, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will own and deliver complex end-to-end engineering work items. You will design scalable software, provide technical leadership, and mentor less experienced engineers.
What you will do
- Design and build highly reliable, secure, and scalable software solutions
- Contribute to team guidelines for security, performance, cost, and reliability
- Provide constructive feedback on design documents and pull requests
- Investigate production issues and drive learning from operational incidents
- Lead technical interviews
- Own work items from initial concept to production
- Partner with Product Managers to prioritize features and translate requirements
- Own the resolution of incidents and coordinate mitigation
- Mentor and support less experienced engineers
- Translate technical problems into clear concepts for non-technical stakeholders
Required qualifications
- Strong proficiency in modern backend languages
- Experience building distributed, cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, gRPC, PostgreSQL)
- Proven track record of breaking down ambiguous and complex problems
- Experience supporting high-throughput systems in production environments
- Experience diagnosing complex issues across distributed systems
- Highly collaborative, feedback-receptive mindset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have
- Go or Python
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- 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
- All the latest tech you need
- Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
About the company
Thought Machine develops core and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud to rid banks of legacy technology. The company has more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon.