Senior Java Software Engineer

Up to £75,000 | Remote Working – 2 Days Onsite Per Month in Newcastle| Permanent

• Salary up to £75,000
• Remote working with just 2 days onsite per month
• Work with AWS Bedrock, LLMs, RAG, AI Agents and modern cloud technologies

ABOUT THE COMPANY

We are working with a leading technology consultancy.

They're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong AI experience to join a highly skilled engineering team, building intelligent solutions directly into a live financial trading platform.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on complex, real-world AI applications where performance, reliability and scalability are essential.

THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing and deploying AI-powered features within a large-scale trading platform.

You'll work closely with international engineering teams, taking ownership of technical decisions and delivering production-ready solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and integrating AI agents and LLM-powered applications.
• Building RAG pipelines, knowledge retrieval and tool orchestration solutions.
• Working with AWS Bedrock to integrate and evaluate foundation models.
• Developing scalable backend services and cloud-based applications.
• Implementing MCP integrations, AI evaluation and observability.
• Optimising AI solutions for performance, cost, security and reliability.
• Taking ownership of technical challenges and production issues.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

We're looking for someone with:

• Strong commercial experience as a Senior Software Engineer.
• Proven experience building and deploying AI solutions into production environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of LLMs, RAG, AI agents, MCP and tool orchestration.
• Strong backend development experience using Java, Python or similar languages.
• Solid understanding of AWS and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with system design, performance optimisation and production support.
• Confidence working independently and making technical decisions.
• Regular use of AI development tools within software engineering workflows.
• AWS Bedrock.
• Java and Spring Boot.
• React and TypeScript.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka and Redis.
• Financial services, FinTech or trading platforms.

WHAT'S ON OFFER?

• Salary up to £75,000.
• Remote working with only 2 days onsite per month.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology within financial services.
• Exposure to highly skilled international engineering teams.
• Long-term career development and technically challenging projects.
• The chance to influence the direction of AI products used by real customers.