Engineering Manager - AI Platform

Overview

Thought Machine builds core banking and payments technology that runs natively in the cloud, with the aim of replacing legacy technology in banks. It has more than 550 people across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and Lisbon, and has raised more than 500 million pounds in funding. The company is hiring a full-time Engineering Manager for its AI Platform team in London, United Kingdom.

The team's mission is to let everyone at Thought Machine solve business problems with AI tooling productively, safely and easily. The manager has a wide remit to design and implement new platforms, adjust pipelines and introduce new tools, working with the team, senior leadership and internal users to set and deliver the roadmap. Duties include joining technical discussions and design reviews, measuring the team's impact with data from users, understanding the needs of internal teams, contributing to platform vision and strategy, taking part in engineering-wide initiatives such as recruitment and team processes, developing engineers, and leading by example through code reviews and hands-on work.

Requirements

Essential experience is at least two years of engineering management in platform teams that include AI tooling and capabilities, plus work in a cloud-native environment with a stack similar to Thought Machine's, such as Kubernetes, AWS, GCP or Azure, and golang or Python. Candidates need the technical background to drive decisions, strong interpersonal skills, comfort with high responsibility and autonomy, and experience building platforms and tools used by other engineers. Desirable experience includes leading an AI-first team through organisational change, managing internal platform teams, helping recruit engineering teams, defining team processes and working in hyper-growth settings.

What you get

Benefits include a highly competitive salary, a pension with matching up to 5 percent, life insurance at three times annual salary, six months of fully paid maternity leave and four weeks of fully paid paternity leave, shared parental leave, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, flexible hours, cycle-to-work and electric car schemes, a season ticket loan, learning materials, subsidised clubs, two charity days a year, and food and snacks in the office.

Who can apply

Visa sponsorship is available for suitable candidates. People of all ages and backgrounds are welcome, including those whose experience does not match the description exactly and candidates with ADHD, autism, dyslexia or dyspraxia.