Infrastructure Software Engineer

About the role

Thought Machine is looking for a Senior Software Engineer specialised in Infrastructure to join its Lisbon Engineering Hub. You will help build and maintain the tools and platforms that enable banks to run modern, cloud‑native core and payments technology.

Key responsibilities

• Support the engineering team in building reliable, scalable applications.
• Design and build tools that make services highly available and automate deployment processes.
• Develop observability and orchestration tooling for customers to monitor and manage deployments.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, backup, and redundancy tooling and strategy.
• Improve codebase quality by creating new tools and processes.

Required profile

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.
• 3‑5 years of hands‑on experience developing production‑ready infrastructure management tooling.
• Proficiency with Python or Golang.

Required skills

• Python
• Golang
• Prometheus
• OpenTelemetry
• Grafana
• PostgreSQL
• DuckDB
• Kafka
• Kubernetes (or other container orchestration)
• Vault

What we offer

• Dynamic fintech environment with a mission to modernise banking.
• Generous employee share package.
• Strong workplace culture recognised by industry awards.