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Thought Machine is building modern cloud-native banking technology to replace legacy systems at financial institutions worldwide. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be the primary technical interface between Thought Machine and client banking teams, embedding directly with their engineering organizations to design, build, and deliver production-ready implementations of Vault and related products.
This is a hands-on, generalist engineering role spanning backend development, systems integration, infrastructure, and technical consulting. You will own the technical success of assigned client engagements across the full project lifecycle—from initial requirements and design through production deployment and optimization. You'll travel to client sites up to 25% of the time, work autonomously in complex environments, and serve as the connective tissue between Thought Machine's product teams and client delivery teams.
Key responsibilities include embedding with client engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical delivery plans; writing production-quality code (primarily Python or Go) to build integrations, tooling, and data pipelines; debugging and resolving complex issues across distributed systems including databases, messaging, container orchestration, and cloud infrastructure; designing scalable solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and security; supporting presales activities with technical demonstrations and proof-of-concept work; and channeling client feedback back to internal product and engineering teams to drive continuous improvement.
You must have strong hands-on proficiency in Python or Go, working knowledge of Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and Kafka-like systems, and practical experience deploying and operating workloads on AWS, GCP, or Azure. Client-facing delivery experience is essential—you should be comfortable explaining complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and owning end-to-end project outcomes from design through production, including edge cases and operability concerns. Banking or financial services experience is desirable but not required. The role offers competitive salary, pension matching, life insurance, generous parental leave, and the opportunity to work on transformative technology at a well-funded, rapidly growing fintech company with offices across London, New York, Singapore, Sydney, and Lisbon.
