Software Engineer - Agentic SDLC

At Optiver, the velocity of our software development is a critical part of our competitive advantage. Our ability to compete depends on how quickly new ideas can move from insight to production. The Developer Experience team is a strategic engineering function with a clear mandate: improve the software development lifecycle across the company in ways that accelerate delivery and reduce our time to market. We build the tools, systems, and platforms that shape how software is developed at Optiver.

Many organisations are treating AI as something that helps developers work faster - we think that framing may already be out of date. Agents are now capable of doing work end-to-end, not just assisting with it - at a volume and cadence our current software development lifecycle was never designed to absorb. That shifts the problem we are trying to solve from how to make a developer faster to how to make an agent capable of running the entire lifecycle on its own both safely and efficiently.

As it turns out, this is more of a platform problem than a model problem. An agent is only as autonomous as the least autonomous step around it: the environment it needs and cannot provision, the credentials it has no identity to hold, the integration test it cannot stand up, the review that still waits on a human. Such gaps were invisible while everything ran at a human pace but are now what set the ceiling.

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