# AI Software Engineer

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Manchester, 4 Piccadilly Place
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an AI Software Engineer to join our team in Manchester. As an AI Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and improve software that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using industry-aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.

- Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.

- Stay informed about industry technology trends and innovations, and contribute to the organisation's technology communities.

- Adhere to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and ensure secure software solutions.

- Implement effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

As an Assistant Vice President, you will be expected to:

- Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.

- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills.

- Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.

Requirements:

- Experience with Generative AI and Agentic AI, including their capabilities, limitations, and failure modes.

- Experience with context engineering, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), grounding, knowledge sources, memory, prompt design, and controlled access to information.

- Experience building AI agents and agentic workflows, including task decomposition, orchestration, state management, tool integration, and human approval controls.

- Experience using AI-assisted development tools and coding agents as a core part of how you engineer.

Preferred skills:

- Experience integrating different AI models or providers and making informed trade-offs across quality, resilience, latency, security, and cost.

- Experience delivering AI-powered solutions in regulated environments, working with risk and control partners.

- Experience measuring the impact of AI on engineering productivity, quality, or business outcomes.

## Skills

### Required
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- context engineering
- AI-assisted development tools

### Nice to have
- AI model integration
- regulated environments
- impact measurement

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