At a Glance
- Tasks: Modernise legacy services using AI and build AI-powered development infrastructure.
- Company: Join IG Group, a leading FTSE250 FinTech company.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on hands-on learning and measurable results.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by leveraging AI in software development.
- Qualifications: 8+ years of Java backend experience and strong API design skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Overview
Senior Java Engineer - AI Enablement at IG Group.
Join a FTSE250 Fin Tech company delivering platforms for trading stocks, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering modernised services with AI-enabled development practices.
Responsibilities
- Service Modernisation (50%)
- Modernise legacy services using AI to analyse codebases, understand dependencies, and extract clean APIs
- Work on high-impact legacy services that block divisional delivery speed
- Implement strangler fig patterns and other proven migration approaches
- Deliver modernised services with comprehensive tests, documentation, and multi-instance deployment capabilities
- Ship results quickly with monthly milestones
- Use AI to accelerate every phase: analysis, refactoring, testing, documentation
- Hand off modernised services to Platform Services or divisions with clear ownership
- Demonstrate measurable improvements: faster APIs, better performance, higher reliability
- AI Implementation & Automation (50%)
- Build AI-powered development infrastructure, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for service discovery, dependency mapping, and architecture compliance
- Create AI-assisted CI/CD pipelines with automated code review, security scanning, and test generation
- Build automation using Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, and LLM APIs
- Develop reusable AI tooling that other engineers can adopt
- Demonstrate AI-first development: use AI for coding tasks, refactoring, test creation, and documentation
- Train teams during service handoffs on AI-enabled workflows you've built
- Demonstrate when to use AI vs human judgement
Qualifications
- Backend Engineering: 8+ years of software engineering with Java backend expertise
- Experience modernising production systems at scale
- Strong API design and microservices architecture knowledge
- Understanding of strangler fig patterns, service decomposition, and legacy migration strategies
- AI/LLM Implementation (Critical Differentiator): hands-on experience building with Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Demonstrated use of Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, or similar AI development tools in production work
- Experience implementing AI in CI/CD pipelines (code review, testing, security scanning)
- Built agentic AI solutions or AI-powered automation tools
- Understanding of prompt engineering, model selection, and LLM capabilities/limitations
- Proven AI impact: measurable productivity improvements using AI in development; AI-assisted refactoring, test generation, or documentation at scale
- Culture & Leadership Style
- Delivery-focused: Ship working modernised services
- Hands-on: Write code daily
- Pragmatic: Use AI to go faster, not to be clever
- Teacher through doing: Others learn by seeing your PRs and shipped work
- Measurement-driven: Track your AI productivity gains and share data
- Collaborative: Work across divisions and time zones professionally
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Contact Details:
PVH (Tommy Hilfiger/Calvin Klein) Recruitment Team
