Agentic Engineer: AI Platform Tech Lead (Remote)

Autotelica; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Autotelica is building a platform that lets a large UK energy company's developers use AI coding agents under the company's own standards. Agentic Engineer (technical lead) is remote-first with a UK-based hybrid preference, attending the client’s London office occasionally.

The role involves leading the squad's engineering and owning the context/hooks design. You will port hooks across agent harnesses, build the PR gate with evidence, and drive security and standards across the platform while

Qualifications

• Eight or more years building production software.
• Experience leading a software engineering squad.

Responsibilities

• Own the context and hooks design: session start, pre- and post-tool-use, commit time, pull request.
• Port the hooks from Claude Code to GitHub Copilot, then to other agent harnesses.
• Build and run the pull-request gate and the evidence record that ships with every change.
• Keep the rule checks honest: deterministic where a regex will do, LLM-judged against a rubric where it won't.
• Own security and standards compliance of the platform itself: threat model, pen-test fixes, secrets handling.
• Sit with the client's engineering teams, answer questions, and turn what you hear into backlog items.
• Review the squad's code and set its engineering standards.

Skills

Team leadership

Production software

Tooling & CI

TS/Python programming

Tools

Claude Code

Copilot

Cursor

Codex

Git

GitHub Actions

Job description

Autotelica is building a platform that lets a large UK energy company's developers use AI coding agents under the company's own standards. Agentic Engineer (technical lead) is remote-first with a UK-based hybrid preference, attending the client’s London office occasionally.

The role involves leading the squad's engineering and owning the context/hooks design. You will port hooks across agent harnesses, build the PR gate with evidence, and drive security and standards across the platform while