Infrastructure Engineer

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Greater London is seeking an experienced engineer to support the development of reliable and scalable applications. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 3-5 years of experience in Python or Golang. Responsibilities include collaborating on deployment management and building tools for scalability. We offer competitive salaries, flexible working hours, and a generous benefits package designed to foster a great workplace culture.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary

Pension plan (match up to 5%)

Life insurance - three times annual salary

Competitive maternity and paternity leave

25 days holiday and bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Cycle-to-work scheme

Electric car scheme

Access to outstanding learning materials

Sports and hobby clubs

Fresh fruit and cereals

Huge range of healthy snacks

Two charity days a year

Weekly food pop-up

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience.
• Curiosity about databases, observability tools, or infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms or willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications.
• Help design and build tools to make our services scalable and highly available.
• Collaborate on monitoring and managing deployments by developing observability tooling.

Skills

Python

Golang

Databases

Observability tools

Infrastructure automation

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD systems

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Job description

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 through core and payments technology which run 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 550 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 Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, 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. Global Finance Magazine named us one of the world’s most innovative fintechs, and the Financial Times recognised us as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2023.

Duties

• Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications.
• Help design and build tools to make our services scalable and highly available, automating wherever possible.
• Collaborate on monitoring and managing our fleet of deployments by developing and deploying observability and orchestration tooling.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, backup and redundancy activities.
• Assist in improving the quality of our codebase by building new tools and processes.

Requirements

Essential

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar technical field.
• 3-5 years of hands‑on experience.
• Experience with either Python or Golang.
• A curiosity about areas like databases, observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) or infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP (or the willingness to learn!).
• A understanding of container tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI / CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub Actions).

Desirable

• Exposure to production systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as a code such as Terraform.

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
• 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 and experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress
• Two charity days a year
• Weekly food pop-up