Engineering Programme Manager, Thought Machine
Cloud native banking platform
Open for applications
Cloud native banking platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
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 They want to cure one of the banking industry's primary problems: its reliance on outdated IT infrastructure.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
- Proven track record managing cross-functional technical initiatives within a top tier technology company
- Timely delivery is not your only objective: you obsess over quality, reliability and product value
- Understand a modern microservice-based technology stack (Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS/GCP) built on a CI/CD pipeline
- Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle (product management, engineering, testing, operations)
- Inquisitive mind and is motivated by solving problems
- Self-starter, able to operate autonomously to lead large multi-disciplinary efforts
- Excellent organisational, written, and presentation skills building strong relationships with stakeholders
Desirable
- Knowledge or experience in the retail banking industry
- Experience as a software engineer, an infrastructure engineer or some other technical role
What the job involves
- Engineering Programme Managers at Thought Machine are responsible for the delivery of complex technical programmes within the engineering division
- We take a leading role in forming and planning each programme and support engineering departments that contribute to the programme’s success
- Manage technical programmes: planning, setting milestones and success criteria and coordination of complex multi-team, multi-month engineering programmes
- Communicate schedules, priorities and updates to all levels in the company
- Support engineering departments to identify alignment gaps and reduce overhead
- Have a good understanding of the product and the technical skills to be able to dive into details to drive programmes forward
- Be outcome focussed and ensure everything we do supports the intended programme objectives
- Collaborate with large cross-functional teams
- Be engaged and energetic, helping to drive continuous improvement across the engineering organisation in a very fast paced and dynamic environment
- Develop tools and optimise processes to improve productivity and efficiency
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2025
$60.2m
LATE VC
May 2022
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $620.2m
Company benefits
- Life Insurance- 3 times annual salary
- Competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension (match up to 5%)
- 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 Director.
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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