Senior Software Engineer (Java/AI) Brokerage Services

Location: City of London, United Kingdom; hybrid work with three days in the office

Company

hirify.global is a FTSE100 fintech operating across five continents, providing retail trading and investment services to more than 700,000 clients.

What you will do

• Build and maintain internal tooling that embeds AI into coding, test generation, deployments, defect triage, and engineering workflows.
• Develop observability for AI-assisted pipelines and automate manual steps across coding, testing, and release processes.
• Integrate LLM-based developer tools with Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and CI/CD environments.
• Support AI-enabled testing through exploratory test generation, defect clustering, flaky-test detection, and test prioritisation.
• Define responsible AI standards for data handling, prompt hygiene, and production and customer-data guardrails.
• Mentor engineers, collaborate with product, testing, security, and compliance functions, and track delivery and quality metrics.

Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience with strong technical judgement on production systems.
• Hands-on expertise in Java or a comparable backend service ecosystem.
• Strong experience with test-driven development and pair programming.
• End-to-end ownership of designing, building, deploying, and supporting production systems.
• Experience evaluating or using LLM-based developer tools in a real engineering environment.
• Willingness to work in a hybrid setup with three days in the office.

Nice to have

• Experience with MCP, agentic tooling, or Spec Driven Development.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian ecosystem and its APIs.
• Experience in financial services, trading platforms, or other regulated, high-reliability environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with three office days per week.
• Private medical cover, life insurance, and a flexible benefits package worth 12% on top of salary.
• 25 days of holiday plus a birthday day and two volunteering days, with the option to buy or sell holiday days.
• Enhanced parental pay and leave, onboarding support, mentorships, networks, clubs, and volunteering opportunities.