Engineering Manager, Thought Machine
£130-170k
3-5 days a week in office
Cloud native banking platform
Open for applications
Cloud native banking platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£130-170k
3-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Thought Machine's mission is to build the new foundations for banking. They want to cure one of the banking industry's primary problems: its reliance on outdated IT infrastructure. Nearly every bank is still stuck on a legacy IT platform.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Most traditional banks are stuck on legacy technology. The world's biggest banks today have been around for hundreds of years and their systems reflect this. Their tech systems were built in the mid-20th century and changes/improvements have been layered on top since then.
This infrastructure is creaking in a lot of these institutions, so they need a radical overhaul if they're going to compete with challenger banks like Monzo, N26 and Starling, that have built their banks on modern technology from the ground up.
Thought Machine's customers are primarily in Europe and Asia, and include legacy outfits like Standard Chartered, Lloyds Banking Group, and Sweden’s SEB, but they are also working with challenger banks like Atom Bank. Traditional banks will need to innovate to hold on to their market share, and will need the latest technology to do it, providing a big opportunity for Thought Machine.
The company has raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn, which is being used to support the transformation of the retail banking market with cloud native technology, solving bank reliance on legacy IT. Thought Machine were named AltFi's B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and in the IDC list of top 100 Fintechs.
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Insights
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25% female employees
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"There is an incredibly in-depth programme of live "acadamies" from the company's experts in each area, which is mandatory for all new joiners. This..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2022
$160m
SERIES D
Mar 2022
$54.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $558.8m
Company benefits
- Life Insurance- 3 times annual salary
- Competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension (match up to 7%)
- Health cash plan (including dental & optical)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) + 2 days Charity Leave
Company HQ
Bloomsbury, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Paul Taylor
(CEO)Founder of Phonetic Arts (speech technology in gaming) until it was acquired by Google 4 years later. Then worked for Google as a Technical Lead for 3 years
People progressing
Joined as Back End Software Engineer and became a Tech Lead Manager after 1 year 4 months and is now an Engineering Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Thought Machine
Natalie Brock (Chief of Staff - People)
- Diversity is an integral part of life at Thought Machine. We want to create a work environment where employees enjoy showing up to work authentically as their best self.
- We celebrate our differences with culture events and internal community networks such as the women’s group, OUT our LGBTQ+ group and Belong, which celebrates different ethnicities
- In terms of nationality, Thought Machine has 450 staff and over 45 different nationalities across three offices.
- Although we are above the UK’s average of women in fintech, we have got work to do.
- To help us achieve greater parity we have introduced a number of measures and initiatives, including coaching and training.
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