Forward Deployed Senior Software Engineer
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Job Summary
OUR MISSION
At Redwood we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes.
ABOUT US
Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. Our flagship SaaS platform RunMyJobs (RMJ) is the first composable automation platform specifically built for ERP environments. We enable organizations to orchestrate manage and monitor workflows across applications services and infrastructure in the cloud or on premises.
Our global team of automation experts engineers and customer success professionals work together to deliver seamless automation transformations.
CORE VALUES
One Team. One Redwood
Make Your Own Weather
Obsess over Customer Success
Work the Problem
Be Curious
Own the Outcome
Respect Each Other
YOUR IMPACT
We are seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer focused on migration tooling and customer onboarding to RunMyJobs (RMJ). This role is part of an exciting new Forward Deployed Engineering team that is part of the Global Professional Services team that sits in the intersection of Product Engineering and Go To Market teams.
In this role you will operate at the intersection of engineering and delivery. Your primary focus will be designing building and enhancing migration frameworks tooling and automation accelerators that enable customers to smoothly transition from legacy schedulers and automation platforms into RMJ.
This is a forward deployed engineering role highly technical impact-driven and closely aligned to real-world customer migration challenges.
You will work closely with:
Migration Architects to design scalable and reusable migration patterns
Professional Services to enable efficient customer onboarding
Engineering & Product to improve platform capabilities based on field learnings
Customers (occasionally) to validate requirements troubleshoot edge cases and ensure successful implementations
Migration Tooling & Automation
Design and develop scalable migration tooling scripts and automation frameworks to accelerate onboarding into RunMyJobs.
Build reusable components to migrate workflows jobs dependencies and configurations from legacy systems.
Identify migration bottlenecks and develop technical solutions to streamline data transformation and validation.
Contribute to internal tooling that increases migration repeatability reliability and speed.
Forward Deployed Engineering
Partner with Migration Architects to translate migration strategies into executable tooling and frameworks.
Support Professional Services during complex or high-impact migration engagements.
Troubleshoot migration-related production issues and resolve edge cases.
Occasionally engage directly with customer technical teams to understand source environments and validate solutions.
Platform & Product Collaboration
Provide structured feedback to Product and Core Engineering teams to improve RMJ migration capabilities.
Contribute to architectural discussions ensuring scalability security and performance.
Advocate for automation best practices in enterprise migration scenarios.
Engineering Excellence
Write clean maintainable well-documented code.
Implement automated testing (unit integration end-to-end).
Contribute to CI/CD improvements for migration tooling.
Mentor team members and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
YOUR EXPERIENCE
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
Strong professional experience in Java (Java 11/17)
Experience building backend services APIs and automation tooling.
Experience with XML and JSON types libraries like Jackson Lombok
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL MySQL) Experience with scripting and automation (e.g. Shell scripting Gradle).
Familiarity with containerization (Docker) Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in complex environments.
Experience with automated testing (JUnit AssertJ Mockito).
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across engineering architects and delivery teams.
Experience with AI-driven automation use cases
Experience migrating enterprise systems or schedulers to modern SaaS platforms.
Background in automation workload scheduling or ERP environments.
SAP knowledge (ABAP HANA).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI).
Experience in customer-facing or forward deployed engineering roles.
Experience with AI-driven automation use cases.
If you like growth and working with happy enthusiastic over-achievers youll enjoy your career with us!
THE LEGAL BIT
Redwood is an equal opportunity employer. Redwood prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race colour religion sex gender identity marital or veteran status age national origin ancestry citizenship physical or mental disability medical condition genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) sexual orientation pregnancy or any other consideration made unlawful by regional or local laws. We also prohibit discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful and will have a zero tolerance policy applied to it.
Redwood will comply with all local data protection laws including GDPR when it comes to the handling and processing of personal data. Should you wish for us to remove your personal data from our recruitment database please email us directly at
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