Senior Software Engineer 2

Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxfida, an Oxford-based AI R&D company, seeks a senior, hands-on software engineer to contribute across projects from research to production. You will work with React, TypeScript, Python, and cloud technologies to build scalable AI-driven solutions in insurance, risk governance, and data privacy contexts.

Based in Oxford with hybrid work options, the role offers leadership opportunities, including technical lead responsibilities and potential line-management duties, while collaborating with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of commercial software experience.
• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related STEM field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with core stack and strong experience in at least two: Python, TypeScript, relational databases, APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, AWS.
• Strong software engineering and DevOps skills (CI/CD, version control, containerisation, cloud deployment).
• Proven ability to work in a remote-first, iterative agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development, testing, and maintenance of Oxfida projects, products, and initiatives.
• Build robust, maintainable software and infrastructure using React, TS, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS.
• Collaborate with ML engineers, product managers, and partners to understand requirements and priorities.
• Mentor other engineers, participate in code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot technical, data, and integration issues during development and deployment.
• Improve internal tooling, engineering standards, and deployment practices across Oxfida.
• Communicate trade-offs, risks, and progress to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead a team of engineers as a Technical Lead when needed; line management duties as required.

Skills

Senior-level engineering

Mentoring

Communication

Remote collaboration

Education

BSc in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

React

TypeScript

Material UI

Node.js

Python

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS

Kubeflow

Job description

Contract: Full Time & Permanent.

Location: Oxford, hybrid preferred, though we'd consider fully remote for the right person.

Oxfida (formerly Aioi R&D Lab – Oxford) is an AI R&D company based in Oxford, on a mission to harness AI to understand, predict, and manage risk, helping build a safer, more resilient society.

We sit at the intersection of academia and industry, working with Oxford's professors and researchers alongside commercial partners, and combining that expertise with real-world risk data at global scale to turn frontier research into AI that actually ships rather than just gets published.

Our work spans AI for insurance underwriting and claims, AI risk governance, privacy-preserving technologies for agentic AI, and quantum optimisation, alongside partnership projects on nature and supply chains and the emerging challenges nobody's solved yet.

We build AI products and solutions for insurers, businesses, and public-sector organisations worldwide, and run innovative research projects that push these technologies further, helping people make better decisions in an uncertain world.

Trusted AI. Built in Oxford.

You’ll work across Oxfida's broader project portfolio, including our Pricing Engine and other products and initiatives, building the software and infrastructure that turns research and product ideas into things that actually run. It's a senior, hands‑on engineering role with real scope to lead technically and, where it makes sense, take on line management.

Responsibilities

• Contribute directly to the development, testing, and maintenance of Oxfida projects, products, and initiatives.
• Build robust, maintainable, and operationally sound software and infrastructure using our core stack: React, TypeScript, Material UI, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS.
• Work with ML engineers, ML scientists, product managers, and external project partners to understand technical requirements, constraints, and delivery priorities.
• Support other engineers through code review, pair programming, and mentoring, and champion engineering best practice across Oxfida.
• Troubleshoot technical, data, and integration issues arising during development and deployment.
• Drive improvements to internal tooling, engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and deployment practices across Oxfida.
• Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and progress clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Step into a Technical Lead role when needed, leading a team of engineers to deliver against agreed timescales.
• Take on Line Management duties when needed, including regular syncs, mentoring, pastoral care, and an annual review cycle.

Bonus points: experience architecting complex distributed software systems for cloud environments, experience deploying ML, AI, or data-driven systems into production or near-production settings, or prior Technical Lead or line management experience.

Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of commercial software experience.
• A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or another relevant STEM discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Familiarity with our core stack, with strong experience in at least two of: Python, TypeScript, relational databases, APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, AWS.
• Strong core software engineering and DevOps skills, including CI/CD, version control, containerisation, and cloud deployment.
• A solid grasp of engineering best practice, producing clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Comfort with code review, giving clear, actionable, constructive feedback to others.
• Proven effectiveness in a remote-first, iterative agile environment.
• Experience working across the full lifecycle, from experimentation and prototyping through to integration and operationalisation.
• Ability to work effectively in technically complex, ambiguous environments involving multiple stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining technical issues and trade-offs clearly to non-specialists.

Why join us

• A senior, genuinely hands‑on engineering role, not one that quietly turns into pure management.
• Broad exposure across Oxfida's project portfolio, from the Pricing Engine to fraud detection and AI risk governance, rather than being tied to a single narrow codebase.
• Real scope to shape the engineering standards and tooling the whole company relies on