Software Engineer, Platform & AI

📋 Job Overview

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges. We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

🏢 About ClearRoute

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges. We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team.

🎯 The Role

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer with strong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in building modern platform and AI-enabled capabilities. You will work as part of an engineering team developing reusable services, APIs, automation and cloud-native capabilities that support application modernisation and AI-enabled workflows. Engineers may bring greater depth in software and AI engineering, platform and cloud engineering, or full-stack development. Strong candidates will demonstrate depth in at least one of these areas, supported by solid engineering fundamentals and the ability to contribute across adjacent parts of the technology stack.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain reliable, testable, production-quality software
• Develop APIs, services and automation that support engineering and business workflows
• Contribute to cloud-native applications and internal platform capabilities
• Build integrations between applications, APIs, developer tooling and external services
• Contribute to automated delivery through CI/CD pipelines
• Work with engineers to design reusable capabilities that can be consumed by other teams
• Contribute to AI-enabled solutions including LLM integrations, RAG, agentic workflows and supporting services where relevant
• Apply good engineering practices across testing, observability, security, reliability and maintainability
• Participate in technical design, problem-solving and architecture discussions
• Learn new technologies and contribute across different parts of the engineering stack as the platform evolves

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3–6 years of professional software engineering experience, with strong engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience building reusable platform capabilities or services on AWS, and the ability to write clean, maintainable and testable code.
• Experience in at least one modern programming language, with Python particularly relevant
• Experience building backend services, APIs, applications or automation
• Understanding of software design principles, testing and production engineering practices
• Experience working with Git and modern software delivery practices
• Exposure to CI/CD and automated deployment
• Understanding of cloud-native application and infrastructure concepts
• Ability to diagnose problems, work through technical ambiguity and contribute effectively within an engineering team
• Genuine interest in AI, platform engineering and modern developer tooling

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Hands-on experience with LLM-powered applications or agentic systems
• Experience with MCP or other tool-serving and integration patterns
• Exposure to AI development frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex or equivalent
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI or comparable AI services
• Kubernetes or Terraform experience
• Experience building developer platforms, internal tooling or self-service engineering capabilities
• GitHub or GitLab API and workflow automation experience
• Understanding of how software and AI systems are deployed, monitored and operated in production

🎁 Benefits

• Real flexibility, in practice. We trust you to perform at your best and still have a life outside of work, with genuine hybrid working, a home office budget, an open feedback culture where your voice shapes decisions, and time off when life needs it (birthday included).
• When ClearRoute wins, you win. We offer profit share so success is shared, meaningful recognition for great work, and benefits that look after you and your family, including private healthcare, competitive salary benchmarking, and a confidential employee assistance program covering counselling, mental health support, and financial wellbeing.
• A community you'll genuinely want to be part of. Interest based communities like running and book clubs, Women in Tech group, monthly socials, and cross regional events bring people together across the company. An inclusive, collaborative culture where you don't need to conform to succeed, where people support one another and feel comfortable being themselves.
• Where meaningful work meets real growth. You will tackle complex, real world problems at the forefront of platform engineering, AI, security, and scalable systems. Your growth is supported by learning budgets, Udemy access, a clear career framework, internal mobility, and thought leadership opportunities that take your impact beyond ClearRoute.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis. We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible.