Back End Engineer

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive salary

Pension plan (match up to 5%)

Life Insurance - 3 times annual salary

Competitive Maternity and Paternity leave

Shared parental leave

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Access to exceptional learning materials

Sports and hobby clubs

All the latest tech you need

Onsite gym with discount

A wide selection of snacks and drinks

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Greater London seeks a Back End Engineer to develop their Vault product. You will design and implement microservices while working collaboratively with engineering teams. Ideal candidates have experience in Python or Golang, automated testing, and knowledge of banking. This role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, making it an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of modern banking technology.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and develop scalable, performant microservices.
• Interface with other engineering teams for feature integration.
• Manage and debug deployments from testing to production.
• Translate customer requirements into trackable tickets.

Skills

Experience with either Python or Golang

Experience in developing automated tests

Interest in client-facing projects

Knowledge of banking/finance

Experience with AWS or other cloud providers

Familiar with databases (SQL or noSQL)

Experience with client/server architectures

Experience using orchestration tools like Kubernetes

Job description

Thought Machine’s mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking and built core and payments technology which runs natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.

We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 500 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney. We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, and more.

We have created a culture enabling our team to produce the best work in the industry, ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the most generous employee share package in the industry. We've been named AltFi's B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and named one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times in 2023.

Back End Engineering is a key role within Thought Machine as Back End Engineers lead the development of Thought Machine’s Vault product. We pride ourselves in excellence in this role, adopting the best practices in continuous deployment monorepo style development.

While development at Thought Machine is fast paced, you will be expected to develop code to a high standard and production ready state.

DUTIES

• Design, implement and develop scalable, performant microservices using best practices.
• Interfacing with other engineering teams to ensure that features are added in a structured and coherent way.
• Managing and debugging your deployments from testing environments all the way to production.
• Translating customer requirements into trackable tickets.

Requirements

• Experience with either Python or Golang.
• Experience in developing automated tests as an integral part of the development cycle.
• Interest in working on client-facing projects, conducting scoping and defining deliverables.
• Knowledge of banking / finance.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
• Familiar with databases (SQL or noSQL).
• Experience with client/server software architectures & networking, or microservice architectures.
• Experience using orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Mesos.

Company Benefits

Thought Machine is committed to making a measurable positive impact on our employees everyday lives both inside and outside of work.

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (match up to 5%)
• Life Insurance- 3 times annual salary
• Competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
• Shared parental leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to exceptional learning materials and courses
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not so healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
• A talented & experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress

Health and wellbeing

We are committed to the health and wellbeing of our people and offer all employees a comprehensive private health insurance package with dental and optical cover. We understand that our team needs to take breaks to fuel their brain so we have an onsite gym with a generous discount. We also offer a comprehensive pension plan, where we match employee contribution’s up to 7%.

In the office

Enjoying time away from your desk is key to happiness in the workplace. We provide breakfast with your favourite cereals and fruit. Throughout the day we offer a wide selection of snacks and drinks. Our fridges are stocked with soft drinks and our hot drinks machines make everything from an espresso to an oat flat white. Every Friday, we bring in a different catering popup store so our team can wind down before the weekend. And on the last Friday of every month, we haul in the arcade machines ranging from Mario Kart to Pac-Man to unleash our competitive spirit.

Out of office

Thought Machiners have set up a wide range of sports and hobby clubs anyone can get involved in - ranging from football to movie club - all subsidised by Thought Machine. Once a year we take over a mystery location for our annual Thought Machine Away Day. Last year it was Margate’s theme park, Dreamland!

Learning and development

Joining Thought Machine will enable you to learn valuable skills so you can progress in your career. New joiners all embark on a Thought Machine Training Academy, where you learn from our experts in technology, design and banking. As your career develops at Thought Machine we continue to offer training to build your skills in sessions ranging from giving effective feedback to building grit, and many more.