General information
Job Title
Junior Client Engineer
City
London
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Division
Client Services
Department
Client Delivery
Junior Client Engineer
Thought Machine
London, UK
Posted on May 13, 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 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