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Engineering

Writes unit tests autonomously, refactors legacy code, and manages CI/CD pipelines flawlessly with 10X faster shipping.

Accountable for

Tested, reviewed pull requests on your CI

  • Autonomous Testing
  • Legacy Refactoring
  • CI/CD Management
  • GitOps

It proposes · you approve · every claim carries its evidence

Workspace · Software Engineer Digital FTE

Software Engineer Digital FTE

Engineering

PRs opened
5
Test coverage
91%+2
Waiting on you
2
CI green
100%

Waiting on you · Pull request · needs review

Proposed · CI green

Refactor billing webhooks · +tests

  • Covers the 3 untested webhook branches found last week.
  • No behaviour change; diff is limited to the billing module.

Diff · test report · rollback note attached

Brief

Yesterday: 5 PRs opened, 3 merged after your review, 0 CI failures.

Illustrative workspace · the Software Engineer Digital FTE's Today tab
Overview

What Software Engineer owns.

A whole job function, not a task queue. Software Engineer holds the role, the targets and the budget you set, and reports to you on the numbers below.

Owns

  • Autonomous Testing
  • Legacy Refactoring
  • CI/CD Management
  • GitOps

Reports on

  • PRs opened
  • Test coverage
  • Waiting on you
  • CI green

Needs from you

  • Access to the repositories it should work in
  • Your CI and review rules
  • What it may merge on its own, if anything
How it works

A week with Software Engineer.

It reports in first, does the work, hands it over for approval, and measures what happened. You review it the way you review a direct report.

  1. Every morning01

    Engineering brief

    Open pull requests, CI status and what it plans to pick up.

  2. Daily02

    Pull requests for review

    Tests first, small diffs, a rollback note on every change.

  3. On approval03

    Merged by you

    Nothing merges without a review unless you grant that level for low-risk changes.

  4. Friday04

    Quality review

    Coverage, CI health and the refactors it proposes next.

The workspace

Managed like a direct report.

Software Engineer reports into a workspace built for a manager, not an operator. Four of its tabs, drawn as they work.

Today

Your morning brief, first thing.

What is waiting on you comes first, then yesterday, what it noticed, and spend against budget. Read it in a minute.

Workspace · Software Engineer Digital FTE · Today

Morning brief · Monday 08:00

Yesterday: 5 PRs opened, 3 merged after your review, 0 CI failures.

Waiting on you

2 to review
PRs opened
5
Test coverage
91%
Waiting on you
2
CI green
100%

Approvals

Nothing ships without your call.

Every publish, send or spend waits here with its verdict, its reasons and its evidence. Approve, or send it back with a note.

Workspace · Software Engineer Digital FTE · Approvals

Approvals

1 waiting on you

  • Software Engineer Digital FTE · Pull request · needs review

    Proposed · CI green

    Refactor billing webhooks · +tests

    • Covers the 3 untested webhook branches found last week.
    • No behaviour change; diff is limited to the billing module.

    Diff · test report · rollback note attached

Performance

Numbers it can prove.

KPIs are measured, never estimated. Anything not connected yet is shown as unmeasured, not filled in.

Workspace · Software Engineer Digital FTE · Performance

PRs opened
5
Test coverage
91%+2
Waiting on you
2
Not connected yet
Unmeasured

PRs opened · 12 weeks

Measured, not estimated

Targets

The contract you hold it to.

Each target carries a status and its evidence. It can propose new targets; they wait for your approval.

Workspace · Software Engineer Digital FTE · Targets

  • Coverage above 90% on the billing module

    91% · CI green

    On track
  • Every change reviewed before merge

    5 PRs · 0 unreviewed merges

    Done
  • No CI run flaky for more than a day

    1 flaky suite · fix proposed

    At risk
  • Refactor the webhooks module

    FTE-suggested · awaiting your approval

    Proposed · your call

Illustrative workspace frames · the tabs, verdicts and statuses are real product surfaces; the figures are samples.

Capabilities

Built for the job.

Writes unit tests autonomously, refactors legacy code, and manages CI/CD pipelines flawlessly with 10X faster shipping.

01

95% Test Coverage

02

Automatic Refactoring

03

Continuous Deployment

Skills

  • Autonomous Testing
  • Legacy Refactoring
  • CI/CD Management
  • GitOps
Missions

What you can ask it to do.

Beyond the weekly routine, you give it missions: a goal, a scope, a deadline, and progress you can see. Three modes, all of them bounded.

Production

Raise test coverage on a module

A bounded push with a target and progress you can see.

Diagnostic

Why is CI flaky?

Ranked causes with the evidence from your runs.

Strategy

Which legacy area should we refactor first?

A recommendation based on change frequency and defect history.

Diagnoses arrive as ranked hypotheses with evidence, never as certainties.

Inside your stack

It works in the tools you already run.

Software Engineer connects to the systems below with the permissions you grant, per organization and per property, and nothing more. Connections can be revoked at any time.

  • Repositories and CI

    • GitHub
    • GitLab
    • Your CI pipeline
  • Where you review its work

    • Your ftes.ai workspace
    • Claude and ChatGPT via MCP connector
    • Email brief
Control

You manage. Software Engineer executes.

It starts at Level 0 and earns autonomy one step at a time. You grant each level when the evidence says so, and you can take it back at any time.

  1. Level 0

    Proposes only

    Every draft, launch, send or spend waits in Approvals. This is where every FTE starts.

  2. Level 1

    Low-risk on its own

    You allow routine actions you have approved many times: refreshes, reply drafts, reconciliations that match exactly.

  3. Level 2

    Acts inside caps

    It may pause losers, scale winners or publish scheduled work, always inside the budget and rules you set.

  4. Level 3

    Runs the week

    Scheduled production runs; you review the brief, the exceptions and the numbers. Any level can be taken back at any time.

Approvals

1 waiting on you

  • Software Engineer Digital FTE · Pull request · needs review

    Proposed · CI green

    Refactor billing webhooks · +tests

    • Covers the 3 untested webhook branches found last week.
    • No behaviour change; diff is limited to the billing module.

    Diff · test report · rollback note attached

Illustrative approvals queue · budget and spend are always visible beside it.

Approval gates
On every publish, send and spend
Budget
A hard cap it cannot exceed
Audit trail
Who, what, when, and why
Getting started

Hired in minutes.

Custom onboarding: we scope the role with you before it starts.

  1. Step 01

    Sign up

    Create your organization. Software Engineer is added to your workforce from the link below.

  2. Step 02

    Connect and confirm

    Grant the tools it needs and confirm the targets it proposes. It never asks for what the platform already knows.

  3. Step 03

    Review the first proposals

    This role is scoped with our team first, then its first proposals land in Approvals.

FAQ

Before you hire.

Short answers. The docs have the long ones.

Can it push to main?

Only if you grant it. By default it opens pull requests and waits for review. Every merge is attributable and revertible.

What can the Software Engineer Digital FTE do without my approval?

Nothing that leaves your company. Software Engineer proposes first: every publish, send or spend waits in Approvals with its reasons and evidence. You can grant more autonomy step by step and take it back at any time. Every action is logged.

How is it priced?

Plans are token-metered blocks of work, not seats. Every FTE in your organization draws from one wallet whose balance is always visible in the workspace. At zero the FTEs pause; they never overdraw.

How long does onboarding take?

Sign up, connect the tools the role needs, and confirm the targets it proposes. Roles marked instant onboarding are working the same day; roles marked custom onboarding are scoped with our team first.

Where does my data go?

Your data stays scoped to your organization and, where it applies, to the specific property the FTE works on. Integration credentials are encrypted at rest and can be revoked at any time.

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