VP Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer — Java, Spring, Kafka & AI

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Dental Coverage

Vision Coverage

401(k) Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Leave

Incentive Award

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Senior Full Stack AI Engineer - VP to design, develop, and improve software for global trading and GMO operations from its Whippany, NJ office. The role focuses on production-grade backend and AI-enabled solutions, collaborating with technology, product, and business stakeholders.

You will shape trading strategies into concrete plans, deliver secure, scalable microservices, and mentor engineering teams while aligning with Barclays’ risk, controls, and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing production-grade backend applications in Java 17+ with OO design, concurrency, collections, unit testing, code reviews, and live-production troubleshooting.
• Designing and delivering Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs with security, config 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 with retries, idempotency, and error handling.
• Solid understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud-native delivery with deploying, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting resilient, secure, high-availability solutions.
• Experience applying AI/LLMs to business use cases including document extraction, classification, prompt engineering, output validation, and human-in-the-loop controls.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-standard languages, frameworks, and tools; ensure code is scalable, maintainable and performant.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and align solutions with business objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of technology trends and contribute to the organisation’s tech communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices to protect data and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implement effective unit testing to ensure code reliability.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

AWS

AI/LLMs

Security

Unit testing

Leadership

CI/CD

Tools

Kafka

AWS

CI/CD

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Barclays is seeking a Senior Full Stack AI Engineer - VP to design, develop, and improve software for global trading and GMO operations from its Whippany, NJ office. The role focuses on production-grade backend and AI-enabled solutions, collaborating with technology, product, and business stakeholders.

You will shape trading strategies into concrete plans, deliver secure, scalable microservices, and mentor engineering teams while aligning with Barclays’ risk, controls, and governance standards.