Senior Gen AI Software Engineer - Python/Polyglot/Esoteric sought by leading investment bank based in the city of London.
**Inside IR35 – 2/3 days a week onsite**
Are you looking for career move that will allow to take a strategic project zero to one? Then bring your extensive coding experience and passion for change and be part of the team building a green-field development at scale.
By joining the Platform Engineering team, you will be a founding member of the team creating the Generative AI platform for the bank. Our remit encompasses large scale engineering challenges on-premise and on cloud, along with cutting edge use of LLMs to address the use-cases of our users across the bank.
You will be joining us right at the beginning of our journey, we are a startup within the bank and everyone will be actively coding. So, we need innovative and creative self-starters who have had previous experience in developing large-scale platforms involving data, finance, and analytics.
What you’ll do will be very case and experience driven, but here are some essentials:
- Design and build high-quality, highly reliable software
- Partner closely with other development teams, quants and subject-matter experts in our businesses
- Ensure our software platforms are compliant with the banks security and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) processes
- Run the platform at scale and continue innovating and evolving
What we’ll need from you:
- Some knowledge of Python
- Strong distributed systems skills and knowledge
- Strong system architecture skills
- Experienced in building and running a large platform at scale
- Very strong knowledge and experience of at least one structured programming language -- e.g. Java, C# (experience of more esoteric languages: Rust, Clojure, Haskell etc. highly appreciated too).
- Good Knowledge of Kubernetes, Kafka, REST-ful design
- Development experience of at least one public cloud provider
- An understanding of AI/ML and more particularly LLMs eager to apply this rapidly changing technology would be beneficial but not essential.