AI Tooling Engineer — Developer Platform & Tools

Selby Jennings; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a Software Engineer focused on AI Tooling to join a top trading firm building developer tools, internal platforms, and AI-enabled engineering solutions.

You will design and develop software across tooling, APIs, automation, and AI, owning projects from requirements to deployment while ensuring security and reliability. Collaboration across locations and a strong focus on improving the developer experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python or Java.
• Experience building production software, APIs, internal platforms, or developer-facing tools.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, containerized environments, and modern infrastructure.
• Experience owning technical projects through design, development, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development or related tooling is a plus, not required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal tools, platforms, and services that improve developer productivity and engineering workflows.
• Develop software that integrates AI capabilities into day-to-day development processes.
• Build and maintain APIs, reusable components, integrations, and automation used by engineering teams.
• Improve how internal tools securely access and interact with technical systems and data.
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders to translate challenges into scalable technical solutions.
• Own projects from requirements through deployment and enhancement.
• Apply security, reliability, monitoring, and maintainability practices to production software.
• Explore and evaluate new AI/LLM technologies for engineering workflows.
• Contribute to tools for measuring and improving AI-enabled development solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams across locations to gather feedback and improve developer experience.

Skills

Python

Java

APIs

Developer tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Problem solving

Ownership

AI/LLM interest

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking a Software Engineer focused on AI Tooling to join a top trading firm building developer tools, internal platforms, and AI-enabled engineering solutions.

You will design and develop software across tooling, APIs, automation, and AI, owning projects from requirements to deployment while ensuring security and reliability. Collaboration across locations and a strong focus on improving the developer experience.