IG Group

Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Client Platform

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14 hours ago
Kraków, PolandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain internal AI tooling for coding assistance, test generation, deployments, defect triage, and release automation.
  • Add observability to AI-assisted engineering pipelines and track metrics such as cycle time, defect escape rate, test coverage, and delivery turnaround.
  • Identify manual coding, testing, and release activities suitable for unattended automation and build solutions to automate them.
  • Integrate LLM-based developer tools with Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and CI/CD environments.
  • Work with testing and product management teams on exploratory test generation, defect clustering, flaky-test detection, and test prioritization.
  • Define and refine responsible AI standards covering data handling, prompt hygiene, and production and customer-data guardrails.
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory and data-handling requirements.
  • Mentor less experienced engineers on effective AI-tool usage and support continuous AI adoption across the team.

Requirements

  • Extensive professional software engineering experience with strong 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.
  • A strong interest in aggressive automation and removing manual engineering steps.
  • Some 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, including Jira, Confluence, and their APIs.
  • Preferred: experience in financial services, trading platforms, or another regulated, high-reliability environment.

Benefits

  • Full-time permanent opportunity with a competitive salary and benefits plan.
  • Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the Krakow office.
  • Life insurance and medical insurance with Medicover.
  • My Benefit Platform and employee share plans.
  • One additional birthday day off and two additional days off annually for voluntary work.
  • Free office lunch once per week.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, and extra time off.

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About IG Group

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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