General information
Job Title
Engineering Manager
City
London
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Division
Engineering
Engineering Manager
Thought Machine
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Jul 15, 2025
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 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.
We have grown rapidly in the past few years - growing our team to more than 550 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 Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, 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. Global Finance Magazine named us one of the world’s most innovative fintechs, and the Financial Times recognised us as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2023.
Duties
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: involvement with hands on technical work.
Requirements
Essential
2+ years experience of engineering management of product aligned teams
Experience of working in a 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 hyper growth environment.
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
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.