Senior Software Engineer (AI-First Development)

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

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivery. Youll ship modernised services in fast cycles while showing other engineers how AI transforms productivity and code quality.

Your role in the Teams Success:

You will be part of a small team to start, 5-6 senior engineers and embedded architect, and scale with contractors as needed based on the pipeline and opportunities. You will be hands-on in code using the latest in AI engineering practices.

Service Modernisation (50%)

Modernise Legacy Services Using AI

• Work on high-impact legacy services that block divisional delivery speed

• Use AI to analyse codebases, understand dependencies, and extract clean APIs

• Implement strangler fig patterns and other proven migration approaches

• Deliver modernised services with comprehensive tests, documentation, and multi-instance deployment capabilities

Ship Results Quickly

• Complete service modernisations in fast cycles with monthly milestones

• Use AI to accelerate every phase: analysis, refactoring, testing, documentation

• Hand off modernised services to Platform Services or divisions with clear ownership

• Demonstrate measurable improvements: faster APIs, better performance, higher reliability

AI Implementation & Automation (50%)

Build AI-Powered Development Infrastructure

• Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for service discovery, dependency mapping, and architecture compliance

• Create AI-assisted CI/CD pipelines with automated code review, security scanning, and test generation

• Build automation using Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and LLM APIs

• Develop reusable AI tooling that other engineers can adopt

Demonstrate AI-First Development

• Use AI for all coding tasks: refactoring, test creation, documentation, debugging

• Achieve measurable and significant productivity improvements through AI integration

• Document patterns and share learnings through your work

• Train teams during service handoffs on AI-enabled workflows youve built

• Demonstrate when to use AI vs when human judgement is critical

• 50% Service Modernisation
• 50% AI Implementation & Automation

Your growth fuels our success! Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.

• Home office equipment reimbursement

• Performance relate 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 organising 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

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• flexible working time
• fruits
• integration events
• retirement pension plan
• corporate library
• no dress code
• video games at work
• coffee / tea
• parking space for employees
• leisure zone
• extra social benefits
• charity initiatives
• birthday off
• Multikafeteria system

Hello, were IG Group. We are a publicly-traded FTSE250 FinTech company who run mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.

We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. Were global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. Were hungry to move faster, ship better product for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently in order to create better experiences for our customers.

We work in cross-functional teams and are laser focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.

We try to take a thoughtful approach to our ways of working as a company. We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office -- which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other. When it comes to how we deliver, there are 5 things we want everyone to do to drive high performance, better learning and career satisfaction:

• Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm

• Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes

• Champion the client: Understand and prioritise clients needs

• Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;

• Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback

We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. Were committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, thats why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey. Learn more about our D&I approach here.

IG Group