Senior Back End Engineer I

Requirements

• Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in modern backend languages (ideally Go or Python) and experience building distributed, cloud-native systems (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, gRPC, PostgreSQL).

• Problem Solving: A proven track record of breaking down ambiguous, and complex problems into clear, deliverable milestones.

• Production Operations: Experience supporting high-throughput systems in production environments and diagnosing complex issues across distributed systems.

• Egoless Collaboration: A highly collaborative, feedback-receptive mindset focused on finding the best outcomes for our clients and business rather than defending personal preferences.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build consensus and document technical designs clearly.

What You'll Be Doing

• Technical Leadership

  • Design & Build: Design and build highly reliable, secure, and scalable software solutions for complex problems.

  • Architecture & Standards: Contribute to team guidelines ensuring our services meet top-tier security, performance, cost, and reliability standards.

  • Code Quality & Peer Review: Set a high bar for code quality by providing constructive, detailed feedback on design documents and pull requests.

  • Operational Excellence: Investigate issues across multiple services in production, drive learning from operational incidents, and feed improvements back into our prioritisation process.

  • Hiring: Actively participate in our growth by leading technical interviews.

• Product & Delivery

  • End-to-End Ownership: Own work items from initial concept to production, creating structured delivery plans, managing dependencies along the way and owning delivery of these work items.

  • Product Vision: Partner with Product Managers to prioritize features, translate client requirements into technical specifications, and ensure solutions align with our overarching product vision.

  • Incident Management: Confidently own the resolution of incidents, coordinating mitigation, fixes, and post-mortem artifacts.

• Collaboration & Mentorship

  • Team Growth: Mentor and support less experienced engineers, helping them level up technically and adapt to Thought Machine’s engineering philosophy.

  • Stakeholder Management: Translate highly technical problems and architectural decisions into clear concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary

• Voluntary Pension Plan (match up to 5%)

• Private Healthcare Insurance

• Comprehensive Life Insurance

• 25 days holiday plus public holidays