Senior Fintech Product Engineer — AI & Cloud

ION; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company share option scheme

25 days annual leave

Birthday off

Flexible working hours

Pension

Job summary

ION, the UK''s leading financial infrastructure provider in education, is hiring for a software engineer to design and ship fintech products. You''ll work across the full development lifecycle, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery while ensuring production-grade quality.

Based in Newcastle upon Tyne with a hybrid schedule (3 days in office, 2 days remote), you''ll collaborate on cloud deployments, modern frontend/backend tech, and architectural decisions to improve software and processes.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional software development experience.
• Comfortable independently delivering production software.
• Experience with C# and .NET, or strong experience in another modern backend ecosystem.
• Experience with TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
• Experience with Next.js or similar modern frontend frameworks.
• Experience with relational databases and data modelling.
• Experience with APIs and integrations.
• Experience testing and debugging production applications.
• Experience with Git and collaborative software development.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and application deployment.
• Experience reviewing code and making architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and ship financial technology products.
• Work across the development lifecycle from understanding the problem through to getting software into production.
• Explore existing systems and codebases to understand product problems.
• Turn product requirements into implementation plans.
• Use AI to accelerate implementation, review output, test it and ship it responsibly.
• Write, refactor and review code.
• Generate tests and investigate bugs.
• Research unfamiliar technologies and produce documentation.
• Automate repetitive engineering work.
• Take ownership of problems and contribute to better software design and architecture.

Skills

Software development

C#

.NET

TypeScript

JavaScript

Frontend development

Backend development

APIs

Testing

Git

Cloud

Code review

Architecture

Tools

Git

Azure

Next.js

Job description

ION, the UK''s leading financial infrastructure provider in education, is hiring for a software engineer to design and ship fintech products. You''ll work across the full development lifecycle, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery while ensuring production-grade quality.

Based in Newcastle upon Tyne with a hybrid schedule (3 days in office, 2 days remote), you''ll collaborate on cloud deployments, modern frontend/backend tech, and architectural decisions to improve software and processes.