Application Developer
Share
Job Location:
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Contract type:Permanent
Location: London
Roles: x 2
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 12th April 2026
We are seeking talented and motivated individuals to join our AI Squad within the Development Team. This role is ideal for graduates or earlycareer developers with strong programming fundamentals a genuine enthusiasm for AI and a curiosity to explore how AI can be applied to solve realworld problems.
Were particularly keen to hear from candidates who have demonstrated their interest through internships hackathons personal or academic projects or relevant coursework and who show clear evidence of selflearning and experimentation with modern technologies.
In this role youll collaborate closely with experienced software engineers data scientists and data engineers to develop impactful solutions tackle complex challenges and support the delivery of AI initiatives across RLAM. Youll be supported to learn grow and build your technical and professional skills in a fastmoving collaborative and supportive environment where curiosity and innovation are encouraged.
About the role
- Work on real RLAM software products designing developing and testing features while learning solid engineering practices APIs and cloudbased integration.
- Get handson with AI and Generative AI from building models to experimenting with prompt engineering finetuning safety alignment and early agentic AI concepts.
- Learn how to build responsible AI by applying fairness explainability and governance principles and by monitoring models to make sure they stayaccurateand robust.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers and data specialists to integrate AI into live systems helping with data preparation and understanding how cloud and platform services fit together.
- Work in agile sprints break down tasks contribute to documentation share knowledge and keep building your skills as you stay up to date with the latest AI and ML developments.
About you
Qualification
- A First-Class/2:1 degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- We encourage all students to apply from recent graduates through to MSc/PhD
- Please note we cannot sponsor visas
Technical Skills
- Solid foundation in objectoriented programming (Python or C#) alongside an understanding of core software engineering concepts such as data structures algorithms and SOLID principles.
- Confident working with SQL to query manipulate and analyse structured data plus familiarity with REST APIs andOpenAPIstandards for building and consuming modern services.
- Exposure to data science and machine learning tools such asPyTorch scikitlearn NumPy Pandas Matplotlib SeabornXGBoost or NLTK with an interest in applying them to realworld problems.
- Growing understanding of modern AI approaches including LLMs and RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) and how these models are designed evaluated and integrated into applications.
- Experience (or willingness to learn) unit testing frameworks likePyTestXUnit orNUnitto ensure code quality and build good engineering habits early on.
Desirable
- Prior internship or work experience in Data Science or AI
- Experience with AI development tools and platforms (e.g. Azure Snowflake AWS GCP)
- Knowledge of Agentic AI
- Git/version control basics (branching merging conflict resolution)
- Knowledge of CI/CD
- Evidence of self-learning (projects GitHub coursework hackathons
About Royal LondonAssetManagement
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) part of the Royal London Group is one of the UKs leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients capital exercising their rights and influencing positive change.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive responsibleenjoyableand fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered Trustworthy Collaborate Achieve.
Wevealways been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion diversity and belonging
Werean Inclusive employer. We celebrate and valuedifferent backgroundsand cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected whatever their background.
#AICareers
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
About Company
From Pensions to Retirement, Savings, Investments and Life Insurance, Royal London has been helping people plan for life’s financial milestones since 1861.
