1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain AI-assisted internal tooling for coding, test generation, deployments, defect triage, and engineering automation.
- Develop observability for AI-assisted pipelines and track metrics such as cycle time, defect escape rate, test coverage, and delivery turnaround.
- Identify manual engineering and release activities suitable for unattended automation and implement solutions to automate them.
- Integrate and safely roll out LLM-based developer tools with Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and CI/CD environments.
- Help establish responsible AI standards covering data handling, prompt hygiene, and safeguards for production and customer data.
- Collaborate with product, testing, project management, security, and compliance teams.
- Mentor less experienced engineers on effective AI-tool usage and contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices.
Requirements
- Extensive software engineering experience with demonstrated technical judgment on production systems.
- Hands-on expertise in Java or a comparable backend service ecosystem.
- Strong fluency in test-driven development and pair programming.
- Experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting features or systems in production.
- Interest in aggressive automation and removing manual engineering steps.
- Experience evaluating or using LLM-based developer tools in a real engineering environment.
- Preferred: experience with MCP, agentic tooling, or Spec Driven Development.
- Preferred: familiarity with the Atlassian ecosystem, Jira, Confluence, and related APIs.
- Preferred: experience in financial services, trading platforms, or another regulated, high-reliability environment.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days in the office.
- Flexible Benefits Package equal to 12% on top of salary.
- Private medical cover for the employee and family.
- Life insurance and contribution to gym memberships.
- 25 days of holiday plus one birthday day and two days for voluntary work, 28 days total.
- Option to buy or sell holiday days.
- Global and local onboarding process.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental pay and leave.
- Mentorships, volunteering opportunities, networks, committees, awards, and sports and social clubs.
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About IG Group
IG Group is a London‑headquartered, publicly traded online brokerage founded in 1974. It builds multi‑asset trading platforms for retail and professional clients, offering financial spread betting, CFDs, forex, share dealing, and crypto, with revenues from spreads, commissions, and financing. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and operates globally under the IG brand, serving traders across Europe, Asia‑Pacific, and North America.