8 months ago
Base Salary
$220k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Experiment with AI tools, development techniques, and agentic workflows to accelerate delivery and improve client outcomes.
- Generate, refactor, and extend enterprise-grade codebases using LLMs as first-class development tools.
- Modernize legacy systems using AI-driven development workflows.
- Design and guide agentic workflows that produce code aligned with business and architectural constraints.
- Validate, test, and harden AI-generated code to meet production, security, and audit standards.
- Partner with clients, product managers, and architects to turn ambiguous requirements into working systems.
- Help Lab49 and its clients adopt LLM-native software engineering practices at scale.
- Lead teams through AI adoption and help enterprises develop scalable AI software-factory frameworks.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and real-world experience solving difficult production problems in enterprise systems.
- Hands-on experience producing production-grade software through prompts, agents, or sustained AI-assisted development workflows at scale.
- Experience working in mature CI/CD environments with automated testing integrated into delivery pipelines.
- Comfort working in regulated, risk-aware environments where correctness, explainability, and traceability matter.
- Ability to reason about system behavior, edge cases, and failure modes in AI-generated code.
- Fluency in at least one major enterprise language or ecosystem, such as Java, C#, Python, or JVM-based stacks.
- Experience designing or using agentic development workflows is preferred.
- Exposure to modernization programs such as monolith-to-services transitions, legacy refactoring, or platform rewrites is preferred.
- Strong interest in the evolution of software engineering in an LLM-first world and ability to defend relevant viewpoints.
About ION Group
ION Group builds enterprise software for trading, treasury, and risk management used by banks, asset managers, corporations, and public-sector institutions. Its portfolio spans order and execution management, market data, and workflow automation delivered as licensed software and SaaS. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in London, the privately held company has expanded globally through acquisitions, including Fidessa, across fixed income, FX, derivatives, commodities, and treasury.