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Senior Software Engineer (Quality Engineering)

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Senior Software Engineer (Quality Engineering) in UK new

  • Thought Machine
  • Full time
  • Email
  • London

Responsibilities

  • Design and build automated quality engineering infrastructure and agentic AI tooling for failure triage, test-code generation, and developer toil reduction.
  • Develop reliability metrics, telemetry, CI/CD integrations, and deterministic fault-injection infrastructure for advanced testing.
  • Partner with engineering teams on risk analysis, integration testing, performance testing, and complex defect resolution.
  • Build robust backend services, APIs, and microservices using established architecture standards.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on test automation, backend design, testing strategies, and code quality.
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership, product management, developer platform teams, and client-facing teams to advance quality standards.

Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on backend software development experience using modern languages such as Go or Python.
  • Experience designing and implementing scalable backend platforms and cloud-native architectures.
  • Deep expertise with CI/CD integration, containerisation, and orchestration, including tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker, and Kubernetes.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and BigQuery.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic workflows for code generation, log analysis, and automated triage.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional technical teams.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary, pension matching up to 5%, and life insurance equal to three times annual salary.
  • Six months of fully paid maternity leave, four weeks of fully paid paternity leave, and shared parental leave.
  • 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, flexible working hours, and two charity days per year.
  • Cycle-to-work scheme, electric car scheme, and season ticket loan.
  • Access to learning materials and courses, subsidised sports and hobby clubs, and the latest technology.
  • Fresh fruit, cereals, snacks, smoothies, drinks, and a weekly food pop-up.

Salary: Competitive

Thought Machine

Thought Machine builds cloud-native core and payments platforms for banks, centered on Vault Core, a microservices, API-driven core banking system delivered in the cloud. It sells enterprise software and services to banks and financial institutions, with engineers embedding to implement and integ...

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