Engineering Manager

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 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. 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. Role: We are hiring for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead an engineering function within one of our client projects; this 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 - 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 We have grown from six founders to 180+ people across five countries in three years, and what sets us apart isn't the pace, it's how we grow. 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. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at