Senior Java 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

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

Delivery-focused, Hands-on, Pragmatic, Teacher through doing, Measurement-driven, Collaborative.

Requirements

• 8+ years 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
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Contribution to gym memberships
• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)
• The option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning Platform
• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents
• Option to participate and create ESG initiatives based on IG Brighter Future Fund