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Engineering Manager

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Thought Machine logoThought Machine · London, UK
Full-timeRemote6mo ago
AWSGCPKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPython
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Responsibilities

  • Working with your team closely with Product Management and Client Services on defining and delivering our product roadmap.
  • Actively participate in technical discussions and design reviews.
  • Measuring your team's impact.
  • Contributing to product strategy.
  • Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.
  • Developing engineers in your team and help them in their career development.
  • Leading by example: Code reviews and hands on technical work
  • Essential
  • 2+ years experience of engineering management of product aligned teams
  • Experience of working in cloud native environments, using modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP, golang/python).
  • Technical background to drive technical decisions and great interpersonal skills to drive communication with Product Managers and Client representatives. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy.
  • You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves.
  • Desirable
  • Knowledge of banking / finance.
  • Interest in working on client-facing projects, conducting scoping and defining deliverables.
  • You've previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.
  • You've previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.
  • You've previously worked in a hypergrowth environment.

Benefits

Highly competitive salaryPension plan (match up to 5%)Life insurance - three times annual salaryCompetitive 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 holidaysFlexible working hoursCycle-to-work schemeElectric car schemeSeason ticket loanAccess to outstanding learning materials and coursesSports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought MachineAll the latest tech you needStart the day properly with fresh fruit and cerealsHuge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinksA talented and experienced team as your colleaguesAn environment where we encourage learning and progressTwo charity days a yearWeekly food pop-upHealth insuranceFlexible scheduleParental leave

Additional Information

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, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and 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 that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while 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 industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years-and a UK Best Employer for 2026. Engineering Managers at Thought Machine lead complex technical projects to deliver on our product roadmap. To accomplish this you will manage a group of talented engineers as they identify issues and implement creative solutions to address them. You will manage your own project deliverables, contribute to product strategy and help develop and grow your team. We are particularly excited to hear from people who show strong product ownership and enjoy switching between engineering management and being hands-on with technical work.


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