At a glance

Location: Cambridge

In-office expectation: Once every two weeks

Employment type: Permanent

Salary:

This role will be a mid or senior level engineer dependant on experience

Why this role exists

Redgates Foundry is our innovation incubator the team scanning the horizon for Redgates next big opportunity. This role exists because that kind of work needs engineers who are genuinely excited by discovery: people who can form a hypothesis test it fast and make a clear-eyed call on whether to push forward or change course.

Most ideas wont become products. Thats by design. Each experiment sharpens our thinking and improves the odds of finding the one that will. If youre motivated by that kind of challenge where the destination isnt fixed and the work is never the same twice this is the role for you.

About Redgate

Redgate brings together people who want to do their best work in an environment built on trust accountability and collaboration.

We build solutions that help data professionals securely manage the data and databases that their organisations depend on a space thats only becoming more critical as systems scale data regulations increase and AI adoption accelerates.

Why join our engineering team

• Youll work in a team that cares about collaboration craft and quality not just in how we build but in choosing what to build finding the shortest path to the questions that matter most.

• Theres real scope to grow your skills and impact with clear pathways and support.

• We value sustainable delivery good ways of working and time to improve how we build.

About the role

The Foundry operates differently to the rest of Redgates product teams. You wont be handed a roadmap. Instead youll work across the full arc of innovation from horizon-scanning and ideation through to early-stage research rapid prototyping and working directly with customers to validate what youre building.

Youll be part of a small cross-functional team (a Tech Lead plus four to six Software and Machine Learning Engineers) and youll regularly run projects in parallel: contributing to ongoing experiments while also exploring entirely new directions. The tech stack is deliberately varied the right tool for the job not a fixed list spanning C# TypeScript Python and more across desktop web API database and ML development.

What makes this role different:

• Youll work on problems where there is no established answer and youll have the autonomy to explore them seriously.

• Your work sits at the intersection of software engineering customer insight and product thinking; its rare to find all three in one role.

• Youll use and help shape how Redgate adopts agentic coding and AI development tools not as an afterthought but as a core part of how the team works.

• The scope is genuinely broad: a typical day could see you balancing technical prototypes customer interviews and competitor teardowns.

What makes you a great fit

• Proven experience using AI coding tools. Youve used them extensively understand their limitations and have developed ways to work around them productively and safely.

• Strong software design and coding skills across modern languages particularly C# TypeScript or Python enough to guide and review AI-generated code with confidence.

• Hands-on experience building agentic systems using frameworks such as LangGraph Microsoft Agentic Framework or MCP with a solid understanding of LLM capabilities and risks.

• Experience designing and running experiments to validate ideas quickly using technical prototypes customer feedback and lean startup principles to test assumptions and make clear decisions.

• Comfortable engaging directly with customers and stakeholders: running interviews demos and concierge-style validation processes and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• A product mindset; you think in terms of user value outcomes and market fit not just features or technical delivery.

What we offer

• Salary range:

• Hybrid working: home and Cambridge office

• Monthly wellbeing allowance and generous paid time off

• Genuine investment in learning development and career progression

• Private health insurance

What happens next

Your application will be reviewed by a person we dont use AI or automated tools to assess applications. Every profile is read by one of our Talent Partners.

Youll hear back within a few days whether its a next step or a no we aim to respond promptly so youre not left wondering.

Our interview process is straightforward and consistent youll find more detail on our typical hiring process below so you know whats coming and why.

Belonging at Redgate

We believe that people do their best work in an environment built on respect fairness and trust and that diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes. Redgate is an equal opportunity employer and we make hiring decisions based on skill potential and alignment with our values.

Required Experience:

Senior IC