At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and maintain cutting-edge software infrastructure for modern banking solutions.
- Company: Join Thought Machine, a rapidly growing fintech with a fantastic workplace culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible hours, generous leave, and access to learning resources.
- Other info: Diverse team culture that values learning and offers excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the fintech industry while working with innovative technology.
- Qualifications: Degree in Computer Science or related field, with 3-5 years of relevant experience.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
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.
At Thought Machine, our Software Engineers specialised in Infrastructure play a crucial role in deploying and maintaining our cutting-edge software, developing tools and integrations with third-party infrastructure components used in our customers’ environments. The role spans across building mechanisms to automate and streamline deployment processes, to facilitating infrastructure changes in the data and streaming platforms which support our products, among other things. We build automation to provide an intuitive and reliable user experience to operate and integrate with Vault for Thought Machine engineers and bank SREs.
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
- Develop observability and orchestration tooling to allow our customers to monitor and manage their deployments
- Contribute to disaster recovery, backup and redundancy tooling and strategy
- Assist in improving the quality of our codebase by building new tools and processes
Essential
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar technical field
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience
- Experience developing production-ready infrastructure management tooling with either Python or Golang
- Familiarity with at least one of the following:
- Observability Tools (e.g. Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
- Databases (e.g. Postgres, DuckDB)
- Event Streaming platforms (e.g. Kafka)
- Container Orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, GitHub Actions)
Desirable
- Experience supporting production systems in high-consistency transactional environments
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary and commission
- Pension plan (match up to 5%)
- Life insurance (3x 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
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.
Software Infrastructure Engineer in London employer: Thought Machine
Thought Machine is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. With a focus on employee growth, the company provides ample opportunities for professional development while ensuring a healthy work-life balance through flexible working hours and comprehensive benefits. Located in the UK, Thought Machine stands out for its commitment to empowering engineers to work closely with clients, making a tangible impact in the cloud technology space.
