The Core Engineering - Software Engineer - Vice President - Birmingham (Java/Python)

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom; office-based role.

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm with engineering teams supporting critical financial and corporate processes.

What you will do

• Build and own systems that produce regulatory submissions for global regulators.
• Deliver features end to end in an Agile team, from requirements and design through coding, testing, UAT, release, and operations.
• Produce technical designs, testing strategies, and implementation plans.
• Work with Finance stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements into workflows, data requirements, and specifications.
• Build reusable solutions and identify opportunities for collaboration across divisions.
• Contribute to data modelling and curation for large-scale financial datasets.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a numerate or technical discipline.
• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Strong analysis and design skills, including data structures, algorithms, and performance-oriented design.
• Hands-on programming experience with Java and Python.
• Strong communication skills with technical and business audiences.

Nice to have

• Cloud experience, ideally with AWS services such as S3, SQS, Lambda, and Fargate.
• Experience with distributed microservices-based applications, solution architecture, and system design.
• Strong database and data modelling skills.
• Experience with agentic AI coding tools and spec-driven development.
• Experience with Snowflake, Spark, Glue, Kafka, or an interest in investment banking and financial instruments.

Culture & Benefits

• Training and development opportunities.
• Firmwide professional networks and opportunities for career growth.
• Benefits, wellness, personal finance, and mindfulness programs.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations during recruitment.