Lead Software Engineer: AI-Driven Enterprise Systems

IFS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking a Lead/Senior Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Asset Management team to design, build and evolve modern enterprise software in the cloud.

You will deliver scalable, secure systems, guide architecture, and apply AI capabilities where they create value. You’ll work on domain-driven, microservices-based solutions using Go, TS/Node, Kubernetes, and cloud services.

This role requires real customer-facing impact and leadership in production-grade software.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology with at least 6 years’ experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Go and TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience designing distributed systems, microservices and cloud-native apps.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve scalable, secure enterprise software.
• Lead development of distributed systems, microservices and APIs.
• Integrate AI capabilities into production software and leverage LLMs.

Skills

Go

Node.js/TypeScript

Distributed systems

Microservices

REST APIs

DDD

Event-driven

Service decomposition

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Observability

DevSecOps

LLMs

AI integration

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology

Job description

IFS is seeking a Lead/Senior Software Engineer to join the Enterprise Asset Management team to design, build and evolve modern enterprise software in the cloud.

You will deliver scalable, secure systems, guide architecture, and apply AI capabilities where they create value. You’ll work on domain-driven, microservices-based solutions using Go, TS/Node, Kubernetes, and cloud services.

This role requires real customer-facing impact and leadership in production-grade software.