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Hybrid in London·Full-time·Added 1 month ago (last checked 7 Oct)
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Overview
Job details
Full-time
Per the ad.
Hybrid
Office and home days — the ad has the split.
Requirements
Be near London for hybrid days
No relocation package mentioned.
Benefits
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Paid annual leave, per the ad.
Pension matched up to 5%
The employer matches what you pay in, per the ad. The legal minimum is 3%.
Cycle to work and season ticket loan
Commuter benefits named in the ad.
Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
2+ years experience of engineering management in platform teams that include AI tooling and capabilities
Experience of working in a cloud-native environment, using modern technology stacks similar to the stack we use at Thought Machine (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, golang/python).
Technical background to drive technical decisions and great interpersonal skills to drive communication with your users. 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.
You have experience developing platforms and tools that are used by other engineers either internally or externally.
Nice to have
Previously led an AI-first team driving organisational change
Experience working in or managing internal platform teams
Previously helped recruit and shape brilliant engineering teams.
Taken an active role in defining and evaluating effective team processes.
Previously worked in a hyper-growth environment.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
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
We actively hire candidates who demonstrate technical excellence in their field and welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, providing everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't accurately match the job description. We also encourage applications from those with different abilities, including candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.
The role
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 through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.
What you'll do
Engineering Managers at Thought Machine lead complex technical projects to deliver on our roadmap. To accomplish this you will manage a group of talented engineers as they identify issues and implement creative solutions to address them. You will manage your own project deliverables, contribute to the vision and strategy of your area and help develop and grow your team. We are particularly excited to hear from people who show strong product ownership and enjoy switching between engineering management and being hands-on with technical work.
Your team's primary mission is to enable everyone in Thought Machine to productively, safely, and easily solve their business problems with AI tooling. You will have a wide remit to design and implement new platforms, adjust pipelines, and introduce new tools when they are the right choice for the job. You will work closely with your team, senior leadership and internal users to define and execute your roadmap.
Actively participating in technical discussions and design reviews.
Taking a data driven approach and measuring your team's impact with the data you can collect directly from your users.
Understanding the needs, challenges and impediments of internal teams so you can identify solutions and measure success
Contributing to the vision and strategy of your platform area, aligning it with broader engineering and business goals.
Contributing to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management team on anything from recruitment to team processes.
Develop engineers in your team and help them in their career development.
Leading by example: Code reviews and hands on technical work
Championing industry best practices and emerging trends to keep our team ahead of the curve.
About Thought Machine
- Industry
- Banking Technology
- Founded
- 2014
- Employees
- 500–1,000
- Headquarters
- London, UK
- Website
- thoughtmachine.net
In their own words
About the company & team
We have grown rapidly in the past few years - growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more.
We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while 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 industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years-and a UK Best Employer for 2026.
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