Junior Software Engineer

Thought Machine; London; On-site; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking a Junior Software Engineer to join its London office. You will design and implement microservices while working with a collaborative team in a dynamic development environment. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and fantastic 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 and courses

Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM or related field.
• Proficiency in Python or Golang.
• Experience integrating automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, performant microservices.
• Write automated unit tests and integrate tests.
• Manage and debug deployments from testing to production.

Skills

Proficiency in Python

Proficiency in Golang

Experience in automated testing

Interest in client-facing projects

Education

Degree in a STEM or related field

Tools

AWS

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

General information

Job Title

Junior Software Engineer

City

London

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Division

Engineering

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.

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.

This is a full-time, permanent position based in our London office, requiring four days a week onsite, with a salary of £55,000 per annum

Duties

• 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.
  
  

Requirements

Essential

• Degree in a STEM or related field.
• Proficiency in Python or Golang.
• Experience in integrating automated tests into the development lifecycle.
• Interest in client-facing projects, including scoping requirements and defining deliverables.
  
  

Desirable

• 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.
  
  

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
  
  

Thought Machine is committed to making a measurable positive impact on people's everyday lives. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.

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