Jobs at Thought Machine

Leads a security engineering team responsible for defining and delivering the security roadmap, designing secure cloud services and platforms, and implementing security tooling. The role combines people management, technical leadership, roadmap and product strategy contributions, design reviews, code reviews, hands-on engineering, recruitment, process improvement, and engineer development. Candidates need experience managing product-aligned engineering teams and securing modern cloud-native technology stacks.

Leads the Provisioning engineering team building and expanding a cloud-native platform that creates and manages Kubernetes-based development and test environments. Responsibilities include technical design, coding, code reviews, platform strategy, data-driven impact measurement, stakeholder collaboration, engineering best practices, recruitment, process development, and mentoring engineers.

Leads strategic, cross-functional initiatives within the CTO Office, including GenAI adoption, engineering operations optimization, operational metrics, executive reporting, and client engagement preparation. The role manages competing priorities, aligns engineering and business stakeholders, improves workflows, removes bottlenecks, and supports high-impact organizational initiatives in a fast-paced technology environment.

Leads high-priority corporate strategy initiatives, including market expansion, strategic investments, product and go-to-market analysis, unit economics, ROI modeling, and capital allocation. Partners with senior leadership, Product, Commercial, Finance, and Marketing to translate strategic priorities into execution. Develops perspectives on banking, fintech, and AI trends and produces research papers, whitepapers, and market insights.

Support company-wide planning, governance, quarterly reviews, target tracking, reporting, and strategic initiatives. Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Product, and other teams to refine metrics and translate growth objectives into execution. Conduct competitor tracking, customer research, business-case analysis, and quantitative and qualitative research. Build reporting frameworks, identify data-driven insights, enable AI-assisted workflows, and present findings to senior stakeholders.

Design, build, test, and maintain end-to-end web applications and backend services. Translate customer requirements into deliverable engineering plans, develop secure and scalable features, collaborate across engineering teams, and manage functionality from testing through production. The role requires React and TypeScript expertise, REST API experience, automated testing, and a focus on clean, maintainable code and user experience.

Designs, deploys, optimizes, and troubleshoots cloud infrastructure for Thought Machine Vault implementations. The role partners directly with client engineering teams across the full project lifecycle, covering infrastructure preparation, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, security, deployment, and production support. It also contributes to presales consulting, client feedback, product improvements, and collaboration with internal engineering, SRE, architecture, and commercial teams. Travel to client sites may reach 25% of working time.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for maintaining and improving production infrastructure supporting cloud-based core banking and payments platforms. Duties include designing resilient systems, disaster recovery, backups, redundancy, capacity planning, automation, observability, on-call support, production maintenance, documentation, and reliability-focused product development. The role also involves mentoring engineers, collaborating with product teams and customers, and managing complex fleet operations across SaaS environments.

Build and maintain reliable infrastructure management tooling for cloud-based banking software. Responsibilities include automating deployments, developing observability and orchestration tools, supporting scalable and highly available services, contributing to disaster recovery and backup strategies, and improving code quality and engineering processes. The role uses Python or Golang and involves cloud platforms, databases, event streaming, container orchestration, and CI/CD systems.

Build and scale Thought Machine’s cloud-agnostic infrastructure platform for global banking software. Responsibilities include developing orchestration and automation tools, designing resilient architectures and disaster recovery systems, improving observability, and optimizing databases and event-streaming platforms. The role requires production infrastructure engineering with Python or Golang, Kubernetes and Docker expertise, and experience extending tools such as Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana.

Lead an AI platform engineering team that builds cloud-native tools and platforms enabling employees to use AI safely and productively. Manage engineers, own technical deliverables and roadmap strategy, conduct design reviews and code reviews, perform hands-on development, measure platform impact, and support career development, recruitment, and engineering-wide initiatives.

Design, implement and maintain scalable, high-performance backend microservices. Write automated unit and integration tests, manage deployments from testing to production, collaborate with other engineering teams, translate customer requirements into deliverables, and work on client-facing scoping and delivery.

Lead planning and delivery of complex, multi-team engineering programmes. Set milestones, coordinate cross-functional teams, communicate priorities across the company, drive outcomes, improve processes and tooling, and ensure quality and reliability within a modern microservice-based stack.

Support global payroll operations across seven countries, ensuring timely payroll execution, statutory reporting, compliance, account reconciliation with finance, user account administration, and participation in payroll implementations and process improvements with external advisors and HR.

Lead resolution of high-priority cloud incidents across hosted and self-managed Vault deployments. Mentor junior engineers, build tooling and automation, perform root cause analysis, improve observability and support processes, and act as the technical owner for enterprise relationships to enhance platform stability and client outcomes.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale, cloud-native backend systems. Own end-to-end solutions, define architecture and engineering standards, investigate production issues across environments, mentor and hire engineers, and drive technical direction and adoption of new tools (including AI) to improve developer velocity and reliability.

Own and deliver complex backend features end-to-end for cloud-native banking systems. Provide technical leadership on architecture, code quality, incident response, and hiring. Mentor engineers, collaborate with Product to translate requirements, and ensure scalable, secure, high-performance production services.