Security Engineering Manager, Thought Machine
Security Engineering
3-4 days a week in office
Cloud native banking platform
Posted today
Cloud native banking platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
3-4 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 They want to cure one of the banking industry's primary problems: its reliance on outdated IT infrastructure.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 in engineering management of product-aligned teams
- Technical background to drive technical choices and great interpersonal skills to communicate with Product Managers and client representatives. You should enjoy working in environments where you have a high level of responsibility and autonomy
- Knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and maintaining security for modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (AWS or GCP, Kubernetes, Go/Python)
- You are comfortable wearing different Engineering Manager hats that suit the changing needs of a team as it evolves
Desirable
- Experience in defining roadmaps, technical architecture, and deliverables
- Experience in balancing risk management with company objectives and opportunities
- Awareness and experience with “well-architected” security frameworks such as CSA-CCM, OWASP SAMM, or similar cloud, infrastructure, or application security frameworks
- Existing experience building and operating security for distributed systems at scale
- You’ve previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams
- You’ve previously taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes
- Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc)
What the job involves
- Working with your team closely on defining and delivering our security engineering 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
- Operate collaboratively with other Thought Machine teams with trust and influence
- Develop 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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