AI Product Engineer

AI Product Engineer
Financial Services
Location: Belfast (Hybrid – 3 days in the office)
Rate: £250–£700 p/d inside IR35 (via umbrella), depending on experience
Contract: Multiple opportunities across varying seniority levels

The Role
Major Financial Services organisation looking to hire multiple AI Product Engineers, with opportunities available for engineers at different levels of experience, from hands-on software engineers through to senior engineers with broader technical ownership and architectural responsibility.

You'll build and deliver AI-enabled products and enterprise applications, combining modern full-stack engineering with AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve software quality and solve real business problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy end-to-end software products and applications
• Frontend: React, TypeScript and JavaScript
• Backend: APIs using Python and modern frameworks
• Design scalable architectures, data models and system integrations
• Use AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate development
• Evaluate, test and validate AI-generated code for quality, security and performance
• Build cloud-native solutions using AWS and modern infrastructure
• Implement automated testing, CI/CD pipelines and observability
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Contribute to technical design, engineering standards and best practices, with scope depending on seniority

Key Requirements

• Commercial software engineering experience, with opportunities ranging from mid-level to senior engineers
• Strong hands-on development skills across frontend and/or backend technologies
• Experience with React, TypeScript/JavaScript and/or Python
• Understanding of APIs, databases, system design and software architecture
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot, or a strong interest in applying them to software development
• Strong problem-solving skills and a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable code
• Ability to assess, test and validate code rather than relying solely on AI-generated output
• Experience working collaboratively with product and engineering teams

Nice to have:

• Experience across the full stack, including React and Python
• AWS experience, including Lambda, S3, API Gateway or RDS
• PostgreSQL and relational database design
• Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code
• CI/CD, automated testing and observability
• Experience building AI-enabled products or working with AI coding agents
• Financial Services experience

Additional Information

• Multiple contract positions available across different experience levels
• 2-8 years’ experience
• Day rates ranging from £250–£700, depending on experience and technical capability
• Hybrid working, with 3 days per week in the Belfast office
• Applicants must already have the right to work, as sponsorship is not available

Get in touch for more details – ncarolan@mcgregor-boyall.com