Backend Engineer

• Sitting with product and client stakeholders to understand the real problem, then helping shape it into something concrete that can actually be built.
• Owning features end to end, from early scoping and design through to building, testing and getting them live.
• Using AI coding agents to move fast, while staying firmly in control of the quality, structure and long-term health of the code.
• Building and integrating LLMs into features, refining the prompts, evaluations and guardrails that make AI-assisted features behave reliably in production.
• Working against a defined data model and a clear contract, and flagging early when something doesn’t add up rather than building the wrong thing quickly.
• Feeding what you learn back to the product and client teams, so each iteration is sharper than the last.

Senior Java Engineer

• Working with product and client stakeholders to understand real problems and shape buildable solutions
• Owning features end to end, from early scoping and design through to build, testing and release
• Using AI coding agents to move quickly while staying responsible for code quality, structure and maintainability
• Building and integrating AI-assisted features, including prompts, evaluations and guardrails
• Working from a defined data model and flagging issues early where something does not add up
• Feeding what you learn back into product and client conversations so each iteration improves

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Senior Java Engineer

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