Orchard Recruitment Ltd
Software Developer
Job Description
Salary: £40,000 - 50,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong back-end engineering in at least one language, with sound judgment to choose the right tool rather than the familiar one
- Experience deploying services to production and supporting them in cloud environments
- Solid grounding in system design and engineering principles, with attention to failure handling, data, and maintenance
- Fluency with agentic development, including real-world experience building with coding agents such as Claude Code or similar
- Understanding of context management, skills and sub-agents, prompting, and orchestration in AI-assisted development
- Experience with API design and third-party integration using clean interfaces and sensible contracts
- Desirable: enough frontend and UI sense to build a decent interface
- Desirable: comfort across several languages such as Python, Go, or Java
- Desirable: awareness of application security and care when handling sensitive data
- Build and own projects end to end, including backend development, deployment, and ongoing operational health
- Design systems that are simple to run and easy for the next person to understand
- Work with AI agents as a normal part of the build process, knowing when to trust them and when to step in
- Integrate third-party services such as KYC providers, payment and gaming platforms, and forensic data sources
- Take ownership of whatever the project needs, including front-end work, data work, and infrastructure
- Own projects rather than tickets, taking ideas from rough concept through to production and ongoing reliability
- AI
- AI Agents
- API
- Backend
- Claude Code
- Cloud
- Frontend
- Support
- Java
- Python
- Security
- UX UI Design
More:
We are a locally based software technology business leading the field in applying AI to build platforms that support compliance, risk, and fraud detection solutions. We are a small team, so the work you build ships quickly and gets used. You will report to the Lead Developer for AI and Platforms and have the opportunity to take real ownership of projects from idea to running product.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Orchard Recruitment Ltd
Douglas
IT
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£45,000
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£55,000
UK median
This salary is 18% below the UK median for Developers (£55,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks