Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and testing world-class software, with a focus on scalable, resilient, and secure systems.
• Providing guidance and direction to the team when faced with software design and implementation challenges, owning the toughest and most ambiguous technical problems.
• Writing well-tested code and maintaining high standards for code quality, system design, and testing.
• Taking part in reviews of your own and other developers’ code, offering specific, actionable feedback on code, designs, and behaviours that helps others.
• Collaborating with the team to ensure the product is of high quality.
• Working closely with the user experience specialists to design, implement and improve the products user experience
• Working closely with the team to ensure the product is supported by solid technical documentation, and API specifications.
• Identifying tools and techniques to improve software engineering, sharing these with the rest of Redgate and beyond.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders, fostering a positive environment.
• Understanding how the product or systems owned by your team solve customer problems and add value, prioritising engineering work based on its potential to provide value to customers.
• Taking ownership of significant projects from start to finish, ensuring delivery of tangible business value through strategic planning and predictable execution.
• You actively engage with users to understand how the product is used in the real world and bring customer empathy into your engineering decisions.

Essential

• You’re an expert in modern .NET/ C#.
• You can design and build scalable, resilient, and secure systems, considering trade-offs and future implications.
• You have a bias for simplicity and maintainability in the code you write and the products you build.
• You practice unit testing, perform code reviews and constantly communicate to ensure the best outcome. Quality is important to you.
• You’re an excellent communicator with good attention to detail, able to communicate effectively both in person and in writing.
• You thrive in a highly collaborative team, building strong relationships and fostering a positive environment.
• You’re flexible and willing to work on all parts of the product, learning new technologies as necessary.
• You have superb software design skills.
• You have experience in an agile development environment.
• You’re enthusiastic about engaging with customers as necessary to create a great product.
• You are driven by continuous improvement and foster a growth mindset within the team.

Desirable

• You have experience working with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
• You have experience developing applications using React.
• You have experience working with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, BDD, Infrastructure as Code etc.

What We Offer

At Redgate, you’ll join a supportive, values-led culture where people are the driving force behind our success. We offer:

• Salary is up to £75,000
• Flexible-hybrid working model
• Great benefits package

Why join us?

At Redgate, we believe supporting and empowering our people is key to our success. We create an environment where you can thrive in your career and enjoy every moment of your journey with us.

Benefits include competitive salary, comprehensive health coverage, monthly wellbeing allowance, flexible working arrangements, generous paid time off, employee assistance program, community and social events. Find out more on our benefits page, or see what our employees said on our Flexa page!

Redgate has adopted a flexible-hybrid model. This means that people will work flexibly with a blend of remote (home) and co-located (office) work, with teams having the flexibility to decide which location best suits the outcomes they need to deliver.

Our diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging commitments

We believe diverse teams are better at solving problems and fostering a creative culture. We aim to offer a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can thrive.

• Recruitment & retention: hiring and retaining diverse talent.
• Authenticity & belonging: promoting inclusive language and behaviours.
• Growth: supporting personal and professional development.

We support DEIB through our inclusion forum (Belong at Redgate) and regular DEIB events. Redgate is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applications from all backgrounds. If you need accommodation, please let us know via our application process or email [contact hidden].

Learn more about our commitment to diversity on our diversity page.

*While we outline the qualities we typically seek, we recognise that you may possess additional attributes and skills that could make you an excellent fit for our team. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.*