Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native Microservices

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension plan (match up to 5%)

Life Insurance

Maternity/Paternity leave

Shared parental leave

25 days holiday

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Job summary

Thought Machine is seeking a Back End Engineer to help develop the Vault product in a fast-paced, high-excellence environment. You will design and implement scalable microservices, align with other engineering teams, and push deployments from testing through production to deliver reliable features.

You'll bring 6+ years as a Software Engineer, with Python or Golang, automated tests, cloud experience (AWS), and familiarity with databases and microservice architectures.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• 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.
• Experience of either managing a team, or a desire to manage a team in the future.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and develop scalable, performant microservices using best practices.
• Interfacing with other engineering teams to ensure 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

Software Engineer

Python

Golang

Automated testing

Client-facing

Banking/Finance knowledge

AWS

SQL/NoSQL databases

Client/server architectures & micro"

Team leadership potential

Tools

Kubernetes

Mesos

Docker

AWS

Job description

Thought Machine is seeking a Back End Engineer to help develop the Vault product in a fast-paced, high-excellence environment. You will design and implement scalable microservices, align with other engineering teams, and push deployments from testing through production to deliver reliable features.

You'll bring 6+ years as a Software Engineer, with Python or Golang, automated tests, cloud experience (AWS), and familiarity with databases and microservice architectures.