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The solution supported compliance in a highly regulated industry by providing easy access to relevant architectural decisions.
Reinforcing a developer-centric approach promoted efficiency and innovation within the team.
The solution was designed to integrate effortlessly into the bank's existing development practices, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum adoption.
Lead Software Engineer, Neobank
The Neobank was growing quickly, which brought increased complexity in its infrastructure, regulatory demands, and the number of engineering teams working autonomously.
With autonomy came decentralised decision-making, making it difficult to keep everyone aligned on architectural standards.
Engineers often didn’t know about relevant Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) when making changes, which risked divergent architecture, conflicts between teams, rework, and non-compliance, something particularly risky in a regulated financial environment.
Build Circle designed and deployed an automated ADR-integration system. This system monitors git pull requests to detect when proposed changes might interact with existing ADRs. It then surfaces links to the relevant ADRs directly in the development workflow, giving engineers immediate access to architecture decisions that could affect their code.
The solution was built to integrate seamlessly into existing tools and workflows, to minimise friction and ensure high adoption; it included contextual information delivery so that the right architectural context is visible at the right time, and proactive context sharing to catch potential misalignments early before they become costly.
Optimised knowledge transfer: engineers gained timely visibility of architectural decisions so they could make informed choices.
Reduced rework and conflicts: architectural deviations and compliance issues were caught earlier, saving time and effort.
Enhanced developer experience (DevEx): by reducing friction, giving context where needed, and integrating with workflows, engineers had a more efficient, satisfying environment.
Strengthened compliance and risk management: having relevant architectural decisions readily available helped ensure adherence to technical standards and regulations, reducing exposure to regulatory risk.
Build Circle partnered with a fast-growing Neobank to streamline its development processes and improve developer experience by automating Architecture Decision Record (ADR) integration.
The solution automatically linked relevant ADRs to pull requests, ensuring engineers had immediate access to architectural context during development. This reduced rework, improved alignment across teams, and strengthened compliance in a highly regulated environment. The result was a more efficient, consistent, and developer-friendly workflow that maintained architectural integrity at scale.
Modernising complex internal tooling isn’t just about improving developer workflows, it’s about creating the conditions for your engineering teams to deliver value at pace. This project shows how focusing on small but critical parts of the delivery chain can unlock meaningful gains in productivity, quality and team morale. When friction is removed, teams ship faster, outages drop and engineering becomes a strategic advantage rather than a bottleneck.
If this resonates with the challenges you're facing, whether it’s slow release cycles, scattered tooling or legacy processes holding back your teams, we’d be happy to explore what a Build Circle partnership could look like. Our Modernisation & Optimisation services are designed to help organisations modernise pragmatically, build stronger internal capability and move forward with confidence.
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