Senior Engineer - AI Enablement

Role Overview

Join IG Group's newly formed Service Modernisation & AI team as a pioneer of AI-first development practices in financial services. You'll modernise and simplify critical legacy services using cutting-edge AI tooling while demonstrating what's possible when AI is deeply integrated throughout the development lifecycle.

What You Will Do

You will be hands-on in code using the latest in AI engineering practices. Service Modernisation (50%): Modernise Legacy Services Using AI, Ship Results Quickly. AI Implementation & Automation (50%): Build AI-Powered Development Infrastructure, Demonstrate AI-First Development.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be part of a small team to start, 5-6 senior engineers and an embedded architect, and scale with contractors as needed based on the pipeline and opportunities. You will be delivery-focused, hands-on, pragmatic, teacher through doing, measurement-driven, and collaborative.

Requirements

• Backend Engineering
• 8+ years of software engineering with Java backend expertise
• Experience modernising production systems at scale
• Strong API design and microservices architecture knowledge
• Understanding of strangler fig patterns, service decomposition, and legacy migration strategies
• AI/LLM Implementation (Critical Differentiator)
• Hands-on experience building with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Demonstrated use of Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI development tools in production work
• Experience implementing AI in CI/CD pipelines (code review, testing, security scanning)
• Built agentic AI solutions or AI-powered automation tools
• Understanding of prompt engineering, model selection, and LLM capabilities/limitations
• Proven AI Impact
• Achieved measurable productivity improvements using AI in development
• Implemented AI-assisted refactoring, test generation, or documentation at scale
• Experience with AI code analysis and automated remediation
• Track record of shipping production systems built with AI assistance

Benefits

• Home office equipment reimbursement
• Performance-related bonus
• Private medical cover for you and your family/partner (Medicover)
• Multikafeteria system (you can choose a multisport card, vouchers, etc.)
• Life insurance (Generali)
• LinkedIn Learning platform free access
• Share Plans for Employees
• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black, and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organizing events & projects that foster an open, diverse, and inclusive culture
• Career-focused technical and leadership training in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform
• Well-being events as well as Employee Assistance Programme
• Summer picnic, New Year party and other social events
• 3 additional days off a year - 1 to celebrate your Birthday and 2 for voluntary work
• App-based parking spots booking system
• Stretching sessions
• Wellbeing weeks