Product Engineer

fscom; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

fscom Compliance Maturity Specialists™ is expanding a new AI-driven product team led by our Head of AI and Technology. You will own outcomes, not just requirements, shipping AI-enabled features from idea to production.

You will collaborate with product stakeholders to translate problems into practical technical solutions, employing Claude-based workflows and modern cloud platforms to deliver value in a regulated financial services context.

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience in AI first software engineering within agile processes and Jira supported Product Engineering workflows.
• Experience with AI-drive agentic engineering tools (e.g. Claude Code, Replit, GitHub Copilot) including deployment to cloud services such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Strong OOP skills (Java, Python or C#). Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Hands-on full-stack development skills, with the ability to build and ship working software using modern web frameworks, APIs and cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including architecture, testing, security, version control, code quality and maintainability.
• Strong requirements skills, including PRDs, user stories, personas, journey maps.
• Comfortable working directly with users and stakeholders, understanding how product experience feedback help drives what outcomes we build to deliver on next.
• Experience in financial services, RegTech or another regulated environment.
• Familiarity with compliance or regulatory topics, such as AML, Consumer Duty or safeguarding, or a genuine interest in learning them.
• Previous experience with LLM and understanding of the limitations, including hallucination, inconsistent outputs, context limitations and model variability.
• Awareness of AI governance and data protection requirements, such as the EU AI Act and UK GDPR.
• Experience helping to build a new team or product in a start-up, scale-up or innovation setting.

Responsibilities

• Adopt AI first requirements documentation, data analysis and idea-to-prototype development, using our Claude-based MCP workflow to move from requirements to prototype to shipped production code.
• Go beyond static specifications where useful, building clickable or functional prototypes with AI-assisted development to validate ideas with users and engineers before committing to a full build.
• Use AI-native development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Replit or equivalent to accelerate software delivery.
• Build reusable AI components, patterns and engineering practices that can be used across fscom's products.
• Experiment rapidly with new AI capabilities and turn successful experiments into robust, maintainable production solutions.
• Work with product and business stakeholders to translate problems into practical technical solutions ensuring viable commercial return.
• Contribute to technical architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD and production operations.
• Stay current with rapidly evolving AI technologies and identify opportunities that could create meaningful customer or business value.
• Create feedback loops across teams and help colleagues build product-centric thinking and a focus on quality.
• Track and report regularly on objectives and key results (OKRs), making sure product performance supports wider business goals.
• Take part in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, Labs sessions and internal show-and-tells.

Skills

AI-first development

OOP languages

Full-stack development

CI/CD pipelines

Requirements engineering

Agile processes

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Replit

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

fscom Compliance Maturity Specialists™ is a compliance advisory firm accredited by Great Place to Work (GPTW) and Diversity Mark. We work with firms in the asset management, capital markets, digital assets and payments sectors across the UK and Europe. We help them benchmark their compliance against regulation and their peers, so they know where they stand. Then we help them get to where they want to be.

Over the last 15 years, we have built a reputation for high-quality, commercially focused advice. As a result, we are widely recognised as a leading compliance advisory firm for the financial services sector. Following our strategic partnership with Bridgepoint in 2022, we are on an accelerated growth path: scaling our advisory capabilities, expanding our service lines and investing in technology-enabled delivery.

THE OPPORTUNITY

As part of our investment in technology-enabled delivery, we are growing a new team led by our Head of AI and Technology. The role carries more knowledge, accountability and ownership than a traditional product or engineering role: you own outcomes, not just requirements or code.

You will play a pivotal part in bringing fscom's products to clients, in line with our go-to-market strategy and product-focused operating model.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Adopt AI first requirements documentation, data analysis and idea-to-prototype development, using our Claude-based MCP workflow to move from requirements to prototype to shipped production code.
• Go beyond static specifications where useful, building clickable or functional prototypes with AI-assisted development to validate ideas with users and engineers before committing to a full build.
• Use AI-native development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Replit or equivalent to accelerate software delivery.
• Build reusable AI components, patterns and engineering practices that can be used across fscom's products.
• Experiment rapidly with new AI capabilities and turn successful experiments into robust, maintainable production solutions.
• Work with product and business stakeholders to translate problems into practical technical solutions ensuring viable commercial return.
• Contribute to technical architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD and production operations.
• Stay current with rapidly evolving AI technologies and identify opportunities that could create meaningful customer or business value.
• Create feedback loops across teams and help colleagues build product-centric thinking and a focus on quality. Build strong working relationships with our expert consultants so that products reflect both client and consultant needs.
• Track and report regularly on objectives and key results (OKRs), making sure product performance supports wider business goals.
• Take part in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, Labs sessions and internal show-and-tells.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a hands-on builder who has taken product ideas to live production value and owned the results. You will be as comfortable writing requirements and talking to users as you are shipping code, and AI tools are already part of how you work every day.

• 2+ years' experience in AI first software engineering within agile processes and Jira supported Product Engineering workflows
• Experience with AI-drive agentic engineering tools (e.g. Claude Code, Replit, GitHub Copilot) including deployment to cloud services such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Strong OOP skills (Java, Python or C#). Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Hands-on full-stack development skills, with the ability to build and ship working software using modern web frameworks, APIs and cloud platforms.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including architecture, testing, security, version control, code quality and maintainability.
• Strong requirements skills, including PRDs, user stories, personas, journey maps
• Comfortable working directly with users and stakeholders, understanding how product experience feedback help drives what outcomes we build to deliver on next.
• Experience in financial services, RegTech or another regulated environment.
• Familiarity with compliance or regulatory topics, such as anti-money laundering (AML), Consumer Duty or safeguarding, or a genuine interest in learning them.
• Previous experience with LLM and understanding of the limitations, including hallucination, inconsistent outputs, context limitations and model variability.
• Awareness of AI governance and data protection requirements, such as the EU AI Act and UK GDPR.
• Experience helping to build a new team or product in a start-up, scale-up or innovation setting.

Attributes

• Focused on outcomes: you measure success by the impact on users and the business, not by the number of features shipped.
• Curious about AI: you keep up with new models and tools, test them quickly and share what works.
• Commercially aware: you understand how products create value for clients and for fscom.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• Ownership: a rare opportunity to help shape a new product and engineering team from its early days, with real ownership of what you build.
• Growth: a private equity-backed firm on an accelerated growth path, with genuine investment in technology, new capabilities and service lines.
• Culture: a collaborative, expert-led and values-driven environment. We are Great Place to Work accredited and hold Diversity Mark Silver.
• Reward: a competitive package with performance-linked incentives.