Remote Software Development Coach | AI-Driven Engineering

McGregor Recruitment; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

McGregor Recruitment seeks a Software Development Coach to strengthen engineering capability in a predominantly remote role, with occasional trips to Edinburgh or Glasgow. The 12-month contract offers a day rate in the £450–£500 range outside IR35 and chances for extensions as needs evolve.

You’ll coach agile teams, reduce technical debt and promote secure, maintainable practices while guiding AI-assisted development initiatives and enabling better developer tooling and experiences.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial software engineering and leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native development and CI/CD.
• Experience coaching teams with different levels of maturity.
• Understanding of large language models and AI-assisted engineering.

Responsibilities

• Coach multiple agile teams to improve engineering capability.
• Identify and reduce technical debt, security, resilience and knowledge risks.
• Promote pragmatic engineering standards, automation and tooling.
• Improve developer experience through self-service capabilities and platform adoption.
• Support responsible AI-assisted software development adoption.
• Help teams use AI for coding, testing, reviews, and documentation.
• Facilitate workshops, communities of practice and knowledge-sharing.
• Contribute to governance, skills development and planning.

Skills

Cloud-native development

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Automated testing

Observability

Secure software development

AWS

GitLab

APIs

Containers

Mentoring teams

AI in engineering

Tools

AWS

GitLab

APIs

Containers

CI/CD

Modern languages

Job description

McGregor Recruitment seeks a Software Development Coach to strengthen engineering capability in a predominantly remote role, with occasional trips to Edinburgh or Glasgow. The 12-month contract offers a day rate in the £450–£500 range outside IR35 and chances for extensions as needs evolve.

You’ll coach agile teams, reduce technical debt and promote secure, maintainable practices while guiding AI-assisted development initiatives and enabling better developer tooling and experiences.