Software Architect, Trainline
2+ days a week in office
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
Job no longer available
Europe's leading rail ticketing platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Trainline is proud to be Europe's leading rail and coach platform - a tech company with a mission to make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience working in a fast pace, high tech environment building highly scalable systems or high traffic sites (ideally for an ecommerce business at some point)
- Excellent and proven design capabilities, preferably in micro-services and event-based architectures
- While this is not specifically a hands-on role, you decide where you need to be hands on to shape key decisions. We are a polyglot environment, but a strong engineering background is a must with awareness of web and services technologies (.NET/reactJS/nodeJS preferred)
- Succinct and thoughtful communicator, you’ll be able to drive collaboration, have great delegation skills, and be able to effectively guide and influence stakeholders
- Deep understanding of best practices within Software Development, and an ability to coach and mentor more junior practitioners in what good looks like
- Experience and understanding of agile delivery practices and the ability to gauge the appropriate amount of up-front design vs enabling teams to fill in the detail
- Mindset of seeing software as an enabler of business, not an end in itself. Our Architects are commercially astute, and always coach our engineers of the need to avoid vanity engineering
What the job involves
- You will be providing technical leadership as part of major business and technology change - responsible for identifying, assessing, and selecting the most appropriate technologies and architectural patterns to deliver it
- You’ll be the architecture owner of a bunch of business capabilities and technical services, responsible for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders and defining roadmap opportunities
- Reporting into the Head of Architecture, you will be a key member of the architecture team and a primary technical decision maker across all Trainline’s estate
- You’ll work closely with Head of Architecture, Security team, Engineering Managers and Lead Engineers to drive and champion the evolution of Trainlines tech stack, systems architecture and best practices
- Ensure our estate has a high-quality codebase, is maintainable, while meeting non-functionals (fast, reliable, scalable, secure, and continuously deliverable)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trainline make it super easy to book transport tickets. Its app is intuitive and well designed and its even pioneering paperless travel, allowing users to store their tickets in the app.
Its hyper focused on customer experience and has a product culture of fast iteration to deliver great outcomes for customers.
Its customers make 170,000 journeys a day and it sell 200 tickets a minute.
Its continuing to innovate to stay ahead, using machine learning to predict price movements and integrating with Siri and Google Assistant so people can buy tickets just by speaking to their phone.
Steph
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Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The complex nature of the market as we work with different suppliers is an amazing opportunity to create fluid solutions. A very well segmented..."
Company benefits
- Flexible working (40% min office attendance)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted gym memberships through Wellhub
- Private Health and Dental Insurance
- Enhanced Pension (matched contributions)
- Income Protection
- Share Incentive Plan (buy one get one free)
- Learning budget
- Primary & Secondary Caregiver Leave
- Shared Parental Leave
- Enhanced sick pay
- Free Perkbox subscription
- Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- YellowNest - Subsidised Childcare Fees
- Work from Abroad
Company values
- Own It - We care about every customer, partner and journey
- Do Good - We make a positive impact
- Travel Together - We're one team
- Think Big - We are building the future of rail
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Jody Ford
(CEO)Joined Trainline in 2020 as COO before becoming the CEO in 2021. Previously the Group CEO at Moonpig and Photobox and also spent over 10 years at eBay in various VP roles.
Lisa Hillier
(CPO)Previously the CPO at Gousto, The Restaurant Group, and Just Eat. They also spent over 6 years at Betfair as the Head of HR and Chief Human Resource Officer.
Mike Hyde
(Chief Data Officer)Previously a Director of Data Science at Facebook and as a Director of Business Insights at Skype and Microsoft.
Sakshi Anand
(CGO)Joined Trainline in 2023 as the VP of Growth and President of UK before becoming the CGO in 2025. They are also the Founder of NeuStar Consulting.
People progressing
Gary joined in 2022 from Comparethemarket as Director of Engineering and was recently promoted to VP Engineering, reporting directly to CTO.
Joe joined in 2022 from Meta as Director of Data Science and was recently promoted to VP Data, reporting directly to CTO.
Ali joined in 2023 from Meta and was recently promoted to VP Product, reporting directly to CPO.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Trainline
- 💚 Diversity drives us forward We know that having a diverse team is crucial to Trainline’s ongoing success. A team that is diverse in all forms – gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought are key to Trainline being an inclusive environment where every Trainliner can be their true self. We're committed to creating workplaces where everyone belongs, is celebrated and their differences are valued, creating an awesome employee and customer experience. 💚 Meet our Networks Our diversity networks are inclusive communities developed and led by Trainliners, with sponsorship and support from senior leaders. They're all about empowering and supporting underrepresented groups, by providing a safe space to talk, a place to come up with new ideas and a channel for voices to be heard. 🚀 Women in Leadership 💜 Gender Equality Network 🏳️🌈 Rainbow Train (LGBTQIA+) 🌻 Sunflower (accessibility) 🌍 Ethnic Diversity Network 🐣 Parent & Carers
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