Senior Java/AI Engineer — AI Tooling & Automation (Hybrid)

ig; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

FTSE100 scale

Job summary

IG Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java/AI) to join the Brokerage Services team in London. You will push AI capabilities across engineering, build coding assistants, AI-assisted test generation, and tooling that connects to Jira, Confluence, and our CI/CD pipeline.

This hands-on role emphasizes production ownership, test-driven development, and strong Java experience, with a clear path toward scaling AI-enabled development and secure, observable systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive software engineering background with production systems experience.
• Strong Java backend development skills and production ownership.
• Experience with AI tooling in engineering workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal tooling that embeds AI into day-to-day engineering work: coding assistants, AI-assisted test generation, deployments, and defect triage.
• Contribute to observability in the AI-assisted pipeline, so every stage shows what the tooling is doing, catching, and missing.
• Identify manual steps in coding, testing, and release that can run largely unattended, and help build the automation to get there.
• Split work into small, releasable pieces that ship continuously.
• Work closely with a product person on your product domain, grounded in real delivery.
• Treat improving ways of working and driving AI adoption as a fundamental, ongoing part of delivering value.
• Work with the test and PM function to bring AI into the testing pipeline: exploratory test generation, defect clustering, flaky-test detection, and smarter prioritisation of what to test.
• Evaluate and help roll out LLM-based developer tools, e.g. Claude Code, integrating them safely with Jira, Confluence, and GitLab environments.
• Follow and help refine standards for responsible AI use in the SDLC: data handling, prompt hygiene, and guardrails around production and customer data.
• Mentor less experienced engineers on effective use of AI tooling.
• Work with security and compliance to make sure AI tooling meets IG's regulatory and data-handling requirements.
• Track the metrics that show whether AI tooling is helping: cycle time, defect escape rate, test coverage, delivery turnaround. Iterate based on data.

Skills

Java backend

Test-driven development

Pair programming

Production ownership

Automation mindset

AI tooling experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Claude Code

GitLab

Job description

IG Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Java/AI) to join the Brokerage Services team in London. You will push AI capabilities across engineering, build coding assistants, AI-assisted test generation, and tooling that connects to Jira, Confluence, and our CI/CD pipeline.

This hands-on role emphasizes production ownership, test-driven development, and strong Java experience, with a clear path toward scaling AI-enabled development and secure, observable systems.