Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Build and own some of our projects end to end: backend, deployment, and the day-to-day of keeping them healthy.
• Design systems that are simple to run and simple for the next person to read.
• Work with AI agents as a normal part of how you build, and know when to trust them and when not to.
• Integrate with third-party services (KYC providers, payment and gaming platforms, forensic data sources).
• Pick up whatever the project needs, including bits of frontend, data work, and infrastructure.

What you need

• Strong backend engineering in at least one language, and the sense to pick the right tool rather than the familiar one.
• Cloud and deployment. You can put a service into production and look after it, not just write the code.
• Solid grounding in system design and engineering principles. You think about failure, data, and maintenance before you think about frameworks.
• Fluent with agentic development. You have built real things with coding agents (Claude Code or similar) and you understand context management, skills and subagents, prompting, and orchestration. You have a view on where they help and where they get in the way.
• API design and integration. Clean interfaces, sensible contracts, third-party services wired in without drama.

Nice to have

• Enough frontend and UI sense to build a decent interface, even if you are not a frontend specialist.
• Comfortable across several languages, for example Python, Go, or Java, and happy to pick up whatever a project calls for.
• Application security, and care when handling sensitive data.
• Any exposure to forensics, compliance, fraud, or eGaming. Not required, we will teach the domain.

How we work

Claude Code and agents like it run through everything we build, with custom skills, subagents, and careful context management. We are not hiding that, and you should not either. We do not care whether you already know our exact setup. We care whether you learn fast and whether your judgment holds up when the agent is confidently wrong. Two things matter most to us:

• Learning velocity. You pick up new tools, domains, and codebases quickly and turn them into working software.
• Judgment with AI output. You verify before you ship. You know when to drive the agent, when to take over, and when to write it yourself.

The process

1. A conversation where you walk us through something you have built and the decisions behind it.
2. An in-office pairing session on the Isle of Man: a real repo, a real task, and the tools you would actually use, including AI agents. We watch how you work, not whether you memorised anything. We cover travel and accommodation for candidates coming from off Island.

Location and eligibility

Both posts are based on the Isle of Man. Anyone taking up employment on the Isle of Man who is not already an Isle of Man worker needs an Isle of Man work permit. We apply for that permit and pay the fee. Relocation support is available for candidates moving to the Island.

Salary and terms

Full-time permanent employee, based on the Isle of Man. £45,000 to £60,000 a year, set by how well you match the role, your seniority, and the depth of what you know. We pay for judgment and range, not years on a CV.