Senior Software Engineer - (Java/AI) Client Platform

IG Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible Benefits Package (12%)

Private medical cover for you and your

Life insurance

Gym membership contribution

25 Days holiday (+1 Birthday, +2 for V

Holiday buy/sell option

Global/local onboarding process

Enhanced parental pay and leave

Job summary

IG Group is seeking a Senior React Native Engineer for its Client Platform to advance AI-assisted coding, testing, and deployment. The role covers ownership of frontend architecture, performance improvements, and cross‑platform consistency, with hands-on tooling development and integration across Jira, Confluence, and GitLab.

You will mentor engineers, partner with security and compliance, and help drive automated pipelines with AI at the core of development and release processes.

Qualifications

• Extensive background as a Software Engineer with production systems experience.
• Strong React Native and UI development track record with performance improvements?
• Fluent in test-driven development and pair programming as working disciplines.
• Real ownership: designed features or systems, built, deployed, and supported in production.
• Genuine appetite for aggressive automation and reducing manual steps.
• Experience evaluating or using LLM-based developer tools in a real engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Apply React Native and UI expertise to improve performance, architecture, and code quality across the Client Platform.
• Build and maintain internal tooling that embeds AI into daily engineering work (coding assistants, AI-driven test generation, deployments, defect triage).
• Contribute to observability in the AI-assisted pipeline and track tooling activity.
• Identify manual steps and help build automation to run largely unattended.
• Split work into small, releasable pieces and ship continuously.
• Collaborate with product to ground what you build in real delivery.
• Drive AI adoption and improvements as ongoing value delivery.
• Work with test and PM to bring AI into the testing pipeline (exploratory testing, defect clustering, flaky tests).
• Evaluate and roll out LLM-based developer tools (Claude Code, etc.) and integrate with Jira, Confluence, GitLab.

Skills

React Native

UI development

Test-driven development

Pair programming

Automation

LLM-based tools

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Job description

Job Title

Senior React Native Engineer - Client Platform

So, who are we?

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next.

Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Your Team

We're looking for a Senior React Native Engineer to join our Client Platform team to push hard on AI across our React Native and UI engineering practice: AI-assisted coding, testing and deployments, shift left on security, defect triage and observability, and the internal tooling that connects our AI tools safely to Jira, GitLab, and our CI/CD pipeline. You'll bring strong React Native and front-end UI expertise, with a sharp eye for component architecture, performance, and cross‑platform consistency. This is a hands‑on role. You'll build tooling yourself, and you'll help set how your team adopts it.

Your Role In The Team’s Success

This role suits engineers with a strong grounding in software engineering practice: test‑driven development, pair programming, and real ownership of systems from design through to production support, with real depth in Java or a comparable backend service ecosystem. The fundamentals matter most: engineers who can write their own tests, review their own designs, and catch their own defects, and who use AI to extend that practice further and faster. Growing into the person the whole group comes to for technical judgement is part of the role.

Our ambition: engineering that runs itself:

The long‑term goal is a pipeline where AI agents handle the bulk of coding support, testing, and triage end‑to‑end, largely unattended, with engineers stepping in for genuine judgement calls and exceptions. We’re early on that path today, and we want someone in this role who treats the destination as real and pushes their team toward it deliberately.

What You’ll Do

• Apply highly skilled React Native and UI expertise to improve application performance, architecture, and code quality across the Client Platform.
• 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, so what you build is 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, for example Claude Code and similar, integrating them safely with our 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, as well as React Native architecture and performance best practices.
• 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 what the data shows.

What You’ll Need For This Role

• Extensive background as a Software Engineer, with demonstrated technical judgement on production systems.
• Highly skilled in React Native and UI development, with a strong track record of improving performance and architecture in production applications.
• Strong fluency in test‑driven development and pair programming as working disciplines.
• Real ownership experience: you've designed features or systems, built them, deployed them, and supported them in production.
• A genuine appetite for aggressive automation. You get energised by removing manual steps entirely.
• Some experience evaluating or using LLM‑based developer tools in a real engineering environment.

Preferred

• Experience with MCP, agentic tooling, or Spec Driven Development.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian ecosystem (Jira, Confluence) and its APIs.
• Prior experience in financial services, trading platforms, or another regulated, high‑reliability environment.

The Perks

It really is more than a job. We think like a start‑up, but we deliver like a FTSE 100 – so the bar is high, and we won't pretend otherwise. We work hybrid, which means three days in the office. We’ll recognise your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.

• Competitive salary
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Contribution to gym memberships
• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)
• The option to buy or sell holiday days
• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

Number of openings

1