Cloud-Focused Backend Engineer (Python/Go) | Flexible Hours

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Life insurance

Flexible working hours

Cycle-to-work scheme

25 days holiday and bank holidays

Job summary

Thought Machine is hiring a Backend Engineer to design, implement and maintain scalable microservices for the Vault product. The role emphasizes production-ready code, automated testing, and close collaboration with other engineering teams.

The ideal candidate will have experience with Python or Golang, automated testing, and an interest in client-facing projects, including scoping and defining deliverables. AWS/Kubernetes experience is desirable.

Qualifications

• Experience with Python or Golang and writing automated tests.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into trackable tickets.
• Interest in client-facing projects, with scoping and deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and develop scalable, performant microservices using best practices.
• Write automated unit tests, integrate tests, etc.
• 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.

Skills

Python

Golang

Automated testing

Client-facing projects

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Client/server architectures

Job description

Thought Machine is hiring a Backend Engineer to design, implement and maintain scalable microservices for the Vault product. The role emphasizes production-ready code, automated testing, and close collaboration with other engineering teams.

The ideal candidate will have experience with Python or Golang, automated testing, and an interest in client-facing projects, including scoping and defining deliverables. AWS/Kubernetes experience is desirable.