Senior Full Stack AI Engineer - VP

2755 Barclays Services Corpor; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Incentive award

Paid leave

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior Full Stack AI Engineer - VP to design, develop, and improve scalable software for financial workflows. You will build production-grade backend services in Java 17+, implement Spring Boot microservices, and lead AI/LLM-driven solutions with a strong emphasis on security, resilience, and observability.

You will work with Product, Technology, and Operations to translate business needs into robust technical plans, while mentoring teams and driving architectural decisions

Qualifications

• Experience with production-grade backend applications in Java 17+ and OOD design.
• Design and delivery of Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Experience building event-driven platforms with Kafka and reliable message processing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality software aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with product and design teams; participate in code reviews and ensure code quality.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot microservices

Kafka

AWS cloud

AI/LLMs in business

Tools

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

Containerization

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance. Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives. Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing. Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth. Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions. Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Full Stack AI Engineer - VP.

At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will play a key role in developing financial models and mission-critical trading tools that support a broad range of GMO (Global banking Operations). Working at the forefront of innovative, client-focused financial solutions, you will collaborate closely with Technology, Product Management, and business stakeholders to transform evolving trading strategies and business needs into project plans, requirements, and estimates that align with the firm's overall product and business objectives.

To be successful as a Senior Full Stack AI Engineer - VP, you should have:

• Considerable hands‑on experience developing production‑grade backend applications in Java 17+, with expertise in object‑oriented design, concurrency, collections, unit testing, code reviews, and live‑production troubleshooting
• Proven success designing and delivering Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs, including security, configuration management, data access, observability, and scalable service architecture
• Experience building event‑driven platforms with Kafka, including producers, consumers, topic design, partitioning, consumer groups, and reliable message processing through retries, idempotency, and error handling
• Solid understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud‑native application delivery, with experience deploying, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting resilient, secure, and high‑availability solutions
• Practical experience applying AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to business use cases, including document extraction, classification, prompt engineering, output validation, and responsible production integration with human‑in‑the‑loop controls

Other highly valued skills include:

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for engineering teams, operations functions, product partners, and senior business stakeholders, while strategically managing risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes Ample DevOps expertise, including CI/CD pipeline implementation, containerization, infrastructure‑as‑code, automated testing, release management, and ownership of monitoring, incident response, and continuous service improvement Good understanding of Financial Markets and Trade Lifecycle processes, including trade capture, confirmation, validation, settlement and control frameworks across asset classes such as FX, Rates, and Equities Proven ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, promoting engineering best practices, architectural standards, code quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement Experience serving as a trusted Subject Matter Expert (SME), designing and delivering scalable, maintainable, and business‑aligned technology solutions that meet performance, resilience, and regulatory requirements

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000 Maximum Salary: $230,000 The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available. Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances. This position is eligible for an incentive award. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.