At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead engineering teams to build, test, and ship innovative software solutions.
- Company: Join ClearRoute, a forward-thinking engineering consultancy with a focus on quality and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, profit sharing, private healthcare, and a supportive work culture.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse community with interest-based groups and opportunities for personal development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in tech while enjoying a balanced life and career growth.
- Qualifications: Proven engineering leadership experience and hands-on technical skills in modern stacks.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
About Us
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 pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, bringing the step change our customers need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and our team. This is an opportunity to help build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and transform organisations and problem domains.
Role
We are hiring for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead an engineering function within one of our client projects. The function builds, tests, and ships software — spanning automated deployment, CI/CD, trunk-based development, TDD/BDD, pair programming, and the safe adoption of AI-generated code in production.
Key Responsibilities
- Estimate and rank the technical health backlog and provide suggestions for improvement
- Track delivery against the plan and report on progress
- Salesforce regression testing — fully automate regression testing, reducing timelines
- Auto deployment / CI/CD — enable engineers to push straight to production (AWS, containers, etc.) in a simple operation
- AI teams review — review the current setup of the two teams already coding with Claude Benchmark, including choice of IDE (Roo, VS Code, IntelliJ, Cursor, Windsurf) and choice of underlying model
Required Experience
- Previous experience in an engineering leadership role, ideally from a big tech or banking/financial services background; candidates with experience in both are a strong bonus
- Hands-on experience with automated deployment and CI/CD pipelines enabling engineers to push straight to production (AWS, containers)
- Practical experience with trunk-based development at scale
- Experience embedding TDD/BDD and pair programming as standard team practice
- Direct experience safely shipping AI-generated code to production, including evaluating AI coding tools/IDEs and models
- Experience designing and building automated regression test suites to replace lengthy manual testing cycles
- Strong hands-on technical background across modern engineering stacks (e.g. Java microservices, Python, Golang)
- A track record of driving engineering change and influencing teams with strong stakeholder management and credibility
Desirable Experience
- Familiarity with the Salesforce platform and Salesforce testing/release practices
- Experience with workflow orchestration frameworks, e.g. Temporal
- Exposure to legacy or mainframe modernisation and decommissioning (DB2, Oracle, Hadoop/Teradata, Ab Initio)
- Experience with data platforms such as PySpark, Databricks, and Snowflake
- Familiarity with React/Angular front-end ecosystems
- Experience benchmarking engineering practices against external models
Working at ClearRoute
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.
At ClearRoute, 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. If this is something you require please let us know by emailing join@clearroute.io
