£800/day to £900/day
London, England
Contract, Variable

Senior Gen AI Software Engineer - Python, Machine Learning

Posted by Harvey Nash.

Senior Gen AI Software Engineer - Python,Machine Learning 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:

  • Experienced in and strong knowledge of using AI/ML and more particularly LLMs eager to apply this rapidly changing technology.
  • Strong knowledge and deep experience 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

Please apply within for further details or call on

Alex Reeder

Harvey Nash Finance & Banking