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We want you to feel comfortable doing great work and bringing your best, authentic self to everything you do. We value your talents, traditions, and uniqueness-and we’re committed to fostering a strong sense of belonging in a respectful workplace.\nWe intentionally seek diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, investing in a culture designed to celebrate differences. We believe that belonging leads to better outcomes and a stronger community of associates united by our mission. At Capital, we live our core values every day: Integrity, Client Focus, Diverse Perspectives, Long-Term Thinking, and Community.\n“I can influence my income.”\nYou want to feel recognized at work. Your performance will be reviewed annually, and your compensation will be designed to motivate and reward the value that you provide. You’ll receive a competitive salary, bonuses and benefits. Your company-funded retirement contribution will factor in salary and variable pay, including bonuses.\n“I can lead a full life.”\nYou bring unique goals and interests to your job and your life. Whether you’re raising a family, you’re passionate about where you volunteer, or you want to explore different career paths, we’ll give you the resources that can set you up for success.\nEnjoy generous time-away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work options\n\nReceive 2-for-1 matching gifts for your charitable contributions and the opportunity to secure annual grants for the organizations you love\n\nAccess on-demand professional development resources that allow you to hone existing skills and learn new ones\n\nAs a senior Software Development Engineer, you will help lead and contribute hands on to the Enterprise Data Office (EDO) Content Delivery team. You will collaborate closely with peers across EDO, GT and global business partners to enable, transform and optimize the delivery of software applications and data solutions that support Capital Group’s strategic growth.\nThis is a role for an experienced full stack engineer with AI experience who combines strong application engineering depth with modern data and AI approach. You will contribute directly to discovery, architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment and operational excellence, while mentoring engineers and helping the team adopt practical AI-enabled engineering practices where they add measurable value.\nThe role sits within EDO Content Delivery and focuses on building and improving full stack applications and data-enabled products, including product reference data management, client-facing data applications, AI enabled applications, and marketing/publishing data automation. 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safety, latency and task success.\nImplement observability, monitoring, cost attribution, audit trails and service-level measures so teams can detect degradation, diagnose failures and prevent regressions.\nUse engineering metrics and measurable value outcomes to guide technical investment, improve delivery and demonstrate the impact of AI capabilities.\nProvide technical leadership\nLead solution reviews and technical decision-making across initiatives, balancing speed, quality, risk, maintainability and business value.\nContribute code and hands-on problem solving where it creates the greatest leverage, particularly for complex designs, reusable components and production-critical issues.\nCoach and mentor engineers across AI, software, data and platform disciplines, helping them build practical skills and sound engineering judgement.\nCodify successful approaches into reusable services, libraries, patterns, reference architectures and playbooks that accelerate the wider organisation.\nBuild strong partnerships across global teams and time zones, influencing outcomes.\nRequired qualifications\nSubstantial experience leading complex software, platform, cloud, data or AI engineering initiatives, including helping build or scale a capability from an early stage.\nDemonstrable hands-on engineering depth, with the ability to contribute production code, lead technical design and challenge architecture constructively.\nHands-on experience designing, building and shipping software and AI or machine-learning solutions for real business problems.\nPractical knowledge of prompt engineering, retrieval architectures, agent development and evaluation methods for generative AI systems.\nStrong software engineering fundamentals, including APIs, system design, distributed-systems concepts, cloud-native development, testing, CI/CD and production operations.\nStrong front-end and UI development experience, including building responsive, accessible and user-centred interfaces using modern web frameworks and design-system patterns.\nExperience integrating applications with enterprise data platforms and working across structured and unstructured data, metadata, semantic or context layers and data-quality controls.\nA track record of influencing senior technology and business stakeholders and translating effectively between business outcomes and technical decisions.\nSystems thinking and high agency, with the judgement to navigate ambiguity and make pragmatic trade-offs between scope, speed, risk, cost and quality.\nExcellent written and spoken communication, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\nThe right to work in the UK, the ability to work from London on a hybrid basis, and openness to travel and collaborate across time zones, particularly with US teams.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience in financial services or another highly regulated enterprise environment.\nExperience with public cloud and modern data or AI platforms, including technologies such as AWS, Azure AI or Databricks.\nExperience designing and delivering full stack applications across front-end, API, service and data layers, with a strong understanding of how user experience, business logic and data quality fit together.\nStrong hands-on experience with modern front-end and UI development, including component-based frameworks, responsive design, accessibility, usability and integration with enterprise design standards.\nExperience building reliable backend services, APIs and integrations, including authentication, authorisation, observability, testing, CI/CD and secure production support.\nExperience enhancing existing applications with AI-enabled capabilities, automation or intelligent user experiences, while applying sound engineering judgement, controls and maintainability practices.\nExperience mentoring senior engineers, setting technical standards and influencing engineering practice across organisational boundaries.\nWhat you bring\nYou operate with urgency, ownership, humility and strong collaboration.\nYou move confidently between strategic context, architectural decisions and detailed engineering implementation.\nYou hold high standards for code quality, testing, clarity, security and reliability, while applying judgement about which standards matter most in each context.\nYou challenge constructively, propose better alternatives and protect quality and team capacity when it counts.\nYou stay current as models, tooling and engineering practices evolve, and you help others learn and adapt.\nYou are motivated by meaningful impact, strong engineering outcomes and the growth of those around you.\nWhat success looks like\nAI solutions deliver measurable improvements to client experiences, business workflows or engineering productivity.\nProduction AI 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Apply now to move to the next step in our recruiting process. If this role isn’t what you’re looking for, check out our other opportunities and join our talent community.\n“I can learn more about Capital Group.”\nAt Capital Group, the success of the people who invest with us depends on the people in whom we invest. That’s why we offer a culture, compensation and opportunities that empower our associates to build successful and prosperous careers. Through nine decades, our goal has been to improve people’s lives through successful investing. We know that our history is a testament to the strength of the people we hire. More than 9,000 associates in 30+ offices around the world help our clients and each other grow and thrive every day. 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