AI Enabled SDLC Engineer
ClearRoute5 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and ship production-quality Python/FastAPI application-layer services.
- Own service quality from acceptance criteria through production.
- Establish and enforce guardrails using acceptance tests, architecture tests, and automated coding standards.
- Use agentic editors such as Claude Code and Cursor as daily delivery tools and guide other engineers in their safe, productive, and governed use.
- Identify and mitigate agent failure modes including prompt injection, scope creep, hallucinated APIs, and unsafe code edits.
- Lead technical delivery in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and work across cloud, AI, Snowflake, and application teams.
- Coach and mentor engineers onboarding to agentic development practices.
Requirements
- At least 6 months of sustained hands-on production delivery using agentic editors such as Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent, supported by specific examples.
- Strong production experience with Python and FastAPI building backend application services rather than infrastructure scripting or automation.
- Deep practical understanding of agent failure modes and mitigation within engineering workflows.
- Fluency in acceptance and architecture testing, including writing tests before implementation and enforcing coding standards through automated test suites.
- Proven ability to lead technical delivery in ambiguous environments without a dedicated product manager.
- Desirable experience in financial services or regulated enterprise environments, legacy or Excel-based application modernization, internal developer platforms, AWS-native development, GitHub Actions pipelines, skills marketplace or API catalogue patterns, and coaching engineers on governing AI-generated code.
Benefits
- Family-friendly working environment with flexibility for employees who have caring responsibilities.
- Interview-process accommodations are available for applicants who require accessibility changes.
About ClearRoute
ClearRoute is a London‑headquartered platform engineering consultancy that helps enterprises improve software delivery across cloud platforms, quality engineering, and developer experience. Founded in 2022, it provides advisory and hands‑on engineering services, applying its QCE framework to streamline routes to production and manage security, compliance, and scalability in complex, regulated, multi‑vendor environments.