Software Engineer - AI Integration - Fixed Term Contract - 12 months

Description

The European Digital Marketing Agency is hiring a practical software engineer to build dependable services, integrations and user-facing features for its AI-enabled internal tools and workflows.

The ideal person is a pragmatic engineer with solid software engineering principles who can take clearly defined features from start to finish while growing their skills in AI, cloud and full-stack work.

You will communicate openly and clearly, and explain technical topics to different audiences.

You will work with technical and non-technical colleagues across the European agency to turn ideas and business needs into secure, scalable, production-ready capabilities.

The company values curiosity, diverse perspectives and listening as part of its leadership approach.

The company has cut energy use in its UK offices by 19.2% year on year.

Responsibilities

• Build, test and maintain backend services and APIs, mainly in Java.
• Build accessible user-facing features in TypeScript and React.
• Write Python for analytics, internal tools and automation.
• Connect backend services to foundation-model APIs and third-party agentic platforms.
• Keep contracts between backend and frontend components clear, reliable and type-safe.
• Add suitable testing, validation, error handling, observability and fallback behaviour.
• Review code, write technical documentation and help improve engineering standards.
• Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to refine requirements and ship production-ready solutions.
• Assess new technologies pragmatically and adopt them where they clearly add value.

Requirements

• A degree in a relevant STEM subject, or equivalent practical experience.
• Solid programming basics in Java or another statically typed language.
• Experience with JavaScript and modern web development basics.
• A good grasp of relational databases, data modelling and SQL.
• Experience with Git, Docker, automated testing and common development workflows.
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or similar tools.
• Strong communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
• Able to own defined work, contribute to technical design and deliver to an agreed standard.
• Desirable: Experience with Spring Boot, TypeScript and React.
• Desirable: Some knowledge of cloud services such as AWS ECS, Lambda, S3 and RDS, or comparable services.
• Desirable: Exposure to Snowflake, Redis or similar technologies.
• Desirable: Experience with foundation-model APIs, structured outputs, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation or agentic frameworks.
• Desirable: Knowledge of API design, CI/CD, application observability and production support.
• Desirable: Awareness of security, privacy, reliability and cost issues in AI-enabled applications.
• Desirable: Background in digital, marketing, agency or other fast-paced delivery settings.

Conditions

Fixed-term contract of 12 months.

Hybrid working.

The company is a Disability Confident employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Benefits

• Private healthcare.
• Matched pension.
• Enhanced parental and family leave.
• Paid "Moments that matter" time off.
• Four business resource groups that support inclusion and belonging.
• Clear progression paths and benchmarked salaries.
• Elective benefits tailored to your country.
• Leadership and professional development programmes, plus many on-demand courses.
• Well-being seminars, events and a global Life Empowerment Assistance Program.
• An onboarding programme to meet new colleagues in your first 30 days.
• Peer-led communities, volunteering and environmental and social initiatives.