AI and automation developer

Manchester, North West M1, United Kingdom

Full-time Permanent Associate

Posted 28 Aug 2026

Department IT - AI and Automation

Reports to Head of AI and Automation

Location Manchester

Salary Dependent on experience

Type Permanent, full-time

Antony Hodari Solicitors is a legal practice providing services from its offices in Manchester and Liverpool city centres. We are investing in new technology, AI and automation to support the next phase of growth

The AI and Automation team builds and runs the internal systems that sit around Proclaim, our core case management platform, and connect it to CRM, telephony, messaging and AI tools.

We are looking for an AI and Automation developer to join our expanding team to help design, build and support our internal platform. Proclaim is the firm's core case management system. Alongside Proclaim, you will work across desktop applications, APIs, SQL Server, background processes and third-party integrations.

This is a hands-on role. You will own work from requirements through to production. You will be expected to use AI coding tools to plan, scaffold and deliver development tasks while applying strong engineering judgement to review, test and refine the output before it goes live. This is primarily focused on developing AI processes that integrate with proclaim rather than traditional proclaim development.

The work is a mix of new development, improvement of live processes, and support of systems already in production with a heavy focus on using AI and automation tools.

• Proclaim, the firm's core case management system. Understanding how it works, and being able to manage data in and out of it
• Internal middleware system
• Databases, APIs and background processes that sit around Proclaim and other business systems.
• Integration and automation that connect Proclaim to the wider IT suite.

• Develop, maintain and improve the firm’s processes through the use of AI tools whilst maintaining data within proclaim.
• Translate operational requirements and user journeys into working software, agreeing scope and priorities with users and managers.
• Develop across the stack:
  React/Type Script interfaces, Electron desktop behaviour, Python APIs, Node.js workers, and SQL.
• Design, change and maintain SQL Server data models that other systems depend on, with care for existing live data.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party products via REST APIs and webhooks.
• Use AI coding agents to move quickly on complex, multi-step tasks, while taking full ownership of the result - including correctness, edge cases, security and maintainability.
• Design and maintain controls for AI-driven processes, including evaluation, guardrails and human oversight.
• Test changes properly before release.
• Support desktop and API releases, including versioning, Git Hub Actions builds and go-live checks.
• Put in place monitoring, logging and alerting for APIs, integrations and AI workflows so failures and quality issues can be identified and resolved.
• Investigate, debug and audit production issues across APIs, integrations, data and user-facing tools. Take ownership through to resolution or a clear escalation.
• Work to agreed schedules and business priorities, managing more than one workstream at a time.

• Strong fundamental understanding of data structures
• Working knowledge of Proclaim. How cases work, workflows, screens, import/export capabilities
• Solid relational database skills: writing, reading and debugging SQL. T-SQL / SQL Server is strongly preferred.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs and webhooks, including dealing with failures, retries and inconsistent third-party behavior.
• Comfortable…