Software Engineer

Ernst & Young; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm is seeking an experienced engineer to lead solution and infrastructure development projects. In this hybrid role, you will leverage advanced technical skills in languages like C#, Java, or Python, and implement CI/CD practices using tools like GitHub and Docker. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software engineering and a strong background in AI model evaluation. This position promotes innovative technology standards and collaboration across teams in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Equal employment opportunity policies

Reasonable accommodations for disabilities

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• More than 10 years applied experience.
• Significant relevant experience in a software or platform engineering role.
• Proficiency in implementing modern methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Leads complex solution or infrastructure development projects.
• Drives technical compliance and contributes to technology standards.
• Solves complex project aspects, ensuring quality coding and testing.

Skills

Advanced technical proficiency in designing, developing, and debugging solutions

C#/Java or Python knowledge

CI/CD delivery using GitHub

Fine-tuning language models

Designing robust evaluation frameworks for AI models

Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

GitHub

Kubernetes

Docker

ADO

Job description

Remote: Hybrid At EY, we are all in to shape your future with confidence. You’ll work in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help build a better working world.

• Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for a large or more complex project, using strong technical capabilities and outstanding hands‑on experience.
• Takes accountability for the design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions or infrastructure, driving compliance with and contributing to the development of relevant standards.
• Fully understands business and user requirements and ensures design specifications meet the requirements from a business and technical perspective.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process.
• Provides advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans.
• Develops strong working relationships with peers across Development & Engineering and Architecture teams, collaborating to develop and engineer leading solutions.
• Provides a leadership role for the work group, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the project.
• Drives consistency to the relevant processes, procedures, standards, technical design whilst supporting the definition, maintenance and implementation of technology standards.

Qualifications

• Advanced technical proficiency in designing, developing, and debugging solutions.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more of: C#/Java or Python.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field preferred.
• More than 10 years applied experience.
• Significant relevant experience in either an internal or external software or platform engineering role, or similar.
• Technical knowledge and experience in delivering software / platform engineering solutions (depending on specialism), providing comprehensive technical advice and handling user requirements.
• CI/CD delivery using code management, configuration management and automation tools such as GitHub, ADO.
• Proficiency in fine‑tuning language models for specific tasks, including text generation, summarization, or question answering.
• Knowledge of embedding models and their application in NLP tasks like similarity matching, clustering, and information retrieval.
• Familiarity with designing and implementing agentic systems that combine AI models with external tools or environments for autonomous decision‑making.
• Ability to design robust evaluation frameworks for AI models and agents, including metrics development, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking.
• Microsoft/Google/AWS certificates (preferred).
• Delivery using modern methodologies.
• Significant proven experience in building applications using container‑orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and container engines like Docker.

EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.

EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and either need assistance applying online or need to request an accommodation during any part of the application process, please call 1-800-EY-HELP3, select Option 2 for candidate related inquiries, then select Option 1 for candidate queries and finally select Option 2 for candidates with an inquiry which will route you to EY’s Talent Shared Services Team (TSS) or email the TSS at [e-mail].