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Description
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 and built core and payments technology which runs 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 500 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney. We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, and more.
We have created a culture enabling our team to produce the best work in the industry, 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 most generous employee share package in the industry. We've been named AltFi's B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and named one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times in 2023.
The client engineer interacts with clients, business analysts and backend engineers, translating business requirements into detailed software solutions and specifications.
This is an essential role within Thought Machine. It operates at a comprehensive technical level, engages with engineering to understand the impact of technical changes, and ensures the successful delivery of our clients’ requirements.
The client engineer role lies at an intersection between integration consulting, software engineering and technical analysis.
Duties
Analyse and validate business requirements, translating into technical specifications/requirements
Evaluate core platform changes versus client-specific requests
Implement Vault Core workflows and Python smart contract code from client requirements (software engineering)
Implement helper libraries, tooling and software around Vault Core configuration
Design client solutions/architecture
Collaborate with engineering, obtaining a deep technical understanding of Vault Core and its associated roadmap.
Coordinate impact and requirements across projects
Support client staging and development instances
Understand, investigate and resolve client technical queries
Prioritise and manage backlog and sprint planning
Conduct post-mortems and defect management on technical issues
Participate in testing, release cycles and QA processes relating to client deployments
Requirements
Essential
Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to communicate solutions
Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience writing commercial or open-source software
Experience analysing requirements, creating specifications and working with engineering functions to implement solutions
Desire and ability to learn and work with engineers to evolve the technical aspects of Vault Core
Interest in working on client-facing projects
Desirable
Delivering technology projects to financial institutions or enterprise firms
Experience with the following tech stack: Python, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, ELK Stack, AWS, Google Cloud and other cloud technologies
Following the Agile software delivery framework
In client-facing integration, implementation engineering or solution architecture roles, in B2B software product companies
Linux experience
Experience with microservice architectures
Experience with REST APIs and equivalents such as gRPC
Benefits
Highly competitive salary
Pension plan (match up to 5%)
Life insurance - three times annual salary
Competitive 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 holidays
Flexible working hours
Cycle-to-work scheme
Electric car scheme
Season ticket loan
Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
All the latest tech you need
Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
An environment where we encourage learning and progress
Two charity days a year
Weekly food pop-up
About the Company
Our team’s mission is a bold one – to create technology that can run the world’s banks according to the best designs and software practices of the modern age. In doing so, we will properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of the problems generated by poor technology running on legacy infrastructure.
Our solution to this is Vault Core: a complete core banking platform that is capable of being configured easily to suit the needs of any bank. We have built Vault Core from the ground up as a cloud-native, microservices an...
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