Senior Software Engineer II

The role

You will own complex technical challenges end-to-end and drive systemic organizational change. You will shape the long-term technical direction of platforms and lead engineering practices.

What you will do

• Create solutions to highly complex problems and lead future technical change
• Enable solutions to meet security, performance, cost, reliability, maintainability, and scalability requirements
• Define standards and engineering practices for the entire company
• Drive adoption of latest technologies like AI-tools
• Introduce new tools and processes to shape the technical roadmap
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to support others
• Investigate complex issues across services in non-local or production environments
• Lead technical interviews to evaluate Subject Matter Experts and leadership roles
• Own solutions to work items of undefined scope and high complexity
• Drive product strategy, vision, and long-term roadmap

Required qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern backend languages
• Deep expertise in large-scale, cloud-native systems
• Proven technical leader who champions industry best practices and mentors peers
• Proven ability to solve highly complex problems of undefined scope
• Extensive experience investigating complex issues across multiple environments, clusters, and products
• Exceptional communication skills

Nice to have

• Go/Python

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 banks of legacy technology. The company has more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon.