Senior Software Engineer

Redgate Software

Redgate creates simple software to help data professionals get the most value out of any database. Our solutions solve complex database management challenges across the DevOps lifecycle making life easier for IT leaders development and operations teams by increasing efficiency reducing errors and protecting business-critical data. The data community trusts Redgate to balance speed to market team collaboration and data protection.

Find out more about us here:

Redgate Software Culture

Flexa Careers

Glassdoor

RepVue

As a Senior Software Engineer youll be part of a small cross-functional team that typically includes a Tech Lead Lead Software Engineer Product Designer Product Manager and 45 software engineers. Beyond your immediate team youll benefit from the support of the Group Engineering Managerwho oversees delivery people and processes across the groupan architect who provides technical direction at the product level and a coaching function to help you get unblocked.

This Senior Software Engineer role is for one of the teams working on Redgate Monitor our flagship monitoring solution. Redgate Monitor is a widely used tool that helps organisations proactively monitor diagnose and optimise their database environments. As part of the Monitor team youll contribute to the ongoing evolution of a mature high-impact product. Youll have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions improve system performance and deliver features that directly benefit thousands of customers worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer you are expected to demonstrate both breadth and depth of technical expertise. You will confidently solve complex problems with clean simple solutions lead and contribute to large challenging projects and act as a technical influencer within your addition to championing best practices you will proactively drive improvements in processes tooling and architecture that benefit the wider engineering organisation.

Beyond technical skills a key part of the senior role is elevating others. This includes mentoring coaching teaching and sharing your expertise through conversations documentation and technical talks. You act as a force multiplier raising the technical abilities of your teammates and improving the engineering environment for all. With a growth mindset you will actively foster a culture of continuous learning collaboration and psychological safety.

Responsibilities (not in order of importance)

• 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

• Youre an expert in / 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.

• Youre 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.

• Youre 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.

• Youre 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 youll join a supportive values-led culture where people are the driving force behind our success. We offer:

• Salary is up 75000

• 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 .

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.

Required Experience:

Senior IC