Senior Software Engineer – Policy as Code

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:

Join a small team building our SDLC Policy-as-Code capability for our clients core technology estate. You'll build and operate the services that sit between our engineering tools, GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Azure DevOps, and the control estate: capturing evidence as software changes flow through the delivery lifecycle, evaluating that evidence against codified policy, and returning reliable allow/deny decisions at the point of deployment.

The work is event-driven and API-led: inbound webhooks from GitHub and Azure DevOps, outbound REST calls to those platforms and to compliance systems, all mediated by an API gateway and authenticated with short-lived credentials. It integrates with our emerging Continuous Compliance Framework (CCF) infrastructure, providing point-in-time yes/no decisions along with a full audit trail.

Key Responsibilities:

• Integration engineering: Design, build and operate the REST APIs, webhook receivers and API clients connecting GitHub and Azure DevOps to policy evaluation and evidence storage. Own the contract: payload shapes, auth flows, idempotency, retries, timeouts and failure semantics.

• Policy-as-code and release governance: Develop and maintain services that ingest evidence, evaluate compliance policy, and provide reliable allow/deny decisions for sensitive actions such as release and deployment.

• Software development: Build clean, modular, tested and maintainable services using modern engineering practices: pull-request workflows, automated testing, REST APIs, event-driven and serverless design, and strong documentation.

• Security, risk and audit by design: Treat operational, security, audit, risk and compliance requirements as first-class design inputs, not after-delivery review points.

Required Experience:

• Strong C# experience on .NET 10 (Azure Functions isolated worker v4, Clean Architecture, TDD)

• Solid experience with Azure. Familiarity with Python is beneficial, as other parts of the Policy-as-Code infrastructure are Python-based.

• Good understanding of the modern SDLC and strong integration engineering experience.

• Ability to build clean, tested, maintainable services.

• Knowledge of Continuous Compliance Frameworks is a plus, though not essential.

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 [email protected]