Software Engineer - Global Investment Research - Vice President (AI)

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm founded in 1869, headquartered in New York with offices worldwide.

What you will do

• Build and maintain end-to-end full-stack features connecting analyst-facing frontends with Java or Python backend APIs and microservices.
• Implement and optimize advanced RAG pipelines and stateful multi-agent workflows using Google ADK, LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, or equivalent technologies.
• Develop automated offline and online evaluation suites to measure contextual relevance, groundedness, and hallucination reduction.
• Deploy and integrate AI components with AWS services including Lambda, ECS/Fargate, EventBridge, S3, IAM, and API Gateway.
• Monitor model and service performance, investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and optimize token and resource consumption.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, CI/CD maintenance, documentation, and Agile collaboration with business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with proficiency in Java or Python and modern full-stack web technologies such as React, TypeScript, FastAPI, or Spring Boot.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• Working knowledge of AWS Lambda, ECS/Fargate, S3, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and API Gateway.
• Understanding of SDLC tooling, automated testing, Git, Docker, and CI/CD automation.

Nice to have

• Experience with financial domain data, investment research workflows, or enterprise content authoring tools.
• Experience with evaluation pipelines and prompt testing using Braintrust, AgentCore Eval, equivalent technologies, or custom benchmark harnesses.
• Experience building Gen AI applications with Google ADK, LangGraph, vector databases, and AWS Bedrock.
• Understanding of token optimization, prompt caching, and latency reduction strategies.
• Familiarity with guardrail frameworks for protection against prompt injection and unauthorized data access.
• Experience building asynchronous or event-driven microservices across Java and Python stacks.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunities for professional and personal growth through training and development programs and firmwide networks.
• Benefits include wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for candidates with special needs or disabilities.
• hirify.global is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.