Senior Backend Engineer — Microservices & Cloud in Fintech

Thought Machine; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan (match up to 5%)

Life Insurance- 3 times annual salary

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Learning materials and courses

Sports and hobby clubs

Job summary

Thought Machine is building a new generation of core banking software with Vault, a cloud-native engine designed for modern banks. As a Back End Engineer you will contribute to scalable, production-ready microservices and help push our monorepo development practices.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams, translate customer requirements into tickets, and maintain high code quality while delivering robust features in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and develop scalable, performant microservices.
• 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

6+ years experience

Python or Golang

Automated tests

Client-facing projects

Banking knowledge

AWS

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Microservices

Kubernetes or Mesos

Team leadership potential

Tools

Kubernetes

Mesos

AWS

Job description

Thought Machine is building a new generation of core banking software with Vault, a cloud-native engine designed for modern banks. As a Back End Engineer you will contribute to scalable, production-ready microservices and help push our monorepo development practices.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams, translate customer requirements into tickets, and maintain high code quality while delivering robust features in a fast-paced environment.