Senior Software Engineer – AI-Driven Java for Brokerage

IG Infotech; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

IG Group in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Java/AI) for Brokerage Services to push AI across engineering, from coding to deployments. You will build tooling, ensure safe AI integration with Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD, and mentor others while delivering robust backend systems.

The role emphasizes test-driven development, ownership of features from design to production, and a strong automation mindset within a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• Extensive background as a Software Engineer with production systems ownership.
• Strong Java backend expertise and practicality in software engineering fundamentals.
• Fluent with test-driven development and pair programming as operating norms.
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, deploy and support features in production.
• Keen on aggressive automation and evaluating/using LLM-based developer tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal tooling that embeds AI into day-to-day engineering work.
• Improve observability to show tool behavior across the AI-assisted pipeline.
• Automate manual steps to enable unattended coding, testing and release.
• Break work into small releasable pieces for continuous delivery.
• Collaborate with product to ensure delivery-grounded features.
• Lead AI adoption improvements as an ongoing improvement activity.
• Integrate AI tooling with Jira, Confluence and GitLab safely and efficiently.
• Follow standards for responsible AI use in SDLC and data handling.
• Mentor engineers in effective AI tooling usage.
• Coordinate with security/compliance to meet regulatory requirements.

Skills

Java backend

Test-driven development

Pair programming

Production ownership

Automation

LLM tools experience

Atlassian Jira/Confluence

MCP

Spec Driven Development

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Job description

IG Group in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Java/AI) for Brokerage Services to push AI across engineering, from coding to deployments. You will build tooling, ensure safe AI integration with Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD, and mentor others while delivering robust backend systems.

The role emphasizes test-driven development, ownership of features from design to production, and a strong automation mindset within a hybrid work setup.