# Senior Back End Engineer I

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 through core and payments technology which run 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 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more. We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while 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 industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Ma

- **Id**: 1092801
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/thought-machine-senior-back-end-engineer-i-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Lisbon, Portugal
- **Countries**: PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T15:10:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T23:35:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5417
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance

## Company

- **Id**: 7206
- **Name**: Thought Machine
- **Domain**: thoughtmachine.net
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/thought-machine>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.25
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 75000
- **Max**: 100000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 112167

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T15:33:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 74
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.818
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 112167
- **Is top pay**: no

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