At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to develop innovative AI solutions for database management.
- Company: Join Redgate Software, a leader in simplifying database challenges.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, health coverage, and flexible working arrangements.
- Other info: Embrace a diverse and inclusive culture with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the tech world while mentoring future engineers.
- Qualifications: Experience in software development, AI applications, and team leadership.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
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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.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be part of a small, cross-functional team that typically includes a Tech Lead, Lead Software Engineer, Product Designer, Product Manager, and 4–5 software engineers. Beyond your immediate team, you'll benefit from the support of the Group Engineering Manager who oversees delivery, people, and processes across the group, an Architect who provides technical direction at the product level, and a coaching function to help you get unblocked.
This Lead Software Engineer role is for a team working on building the next generation of AI capabilities particularly targeted towards database administration. This involves both developing new interfaces and approaches that address the needs of database professionals in using agentic AI, and working with other teams across Redgate to bring capabilities from their tools into the workflow.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be hands-on, shaping the approach the team takes to solving the most complex engineering tasks. You will be responsible for the quality of engineering practices within the team and developing the skills of team members to support this. Beyond pure technical skills, a key part of the Lead Software Engineer role is the elevation of the whole team. This includes mentoring, coaching, teaching and sharing your expertise. You will collaborate closely with the rest of the team’s leadership to help set and enact the team’s goals.
- Work closely with the Tech Lead and wider team to translate business strategy into implementation.
- Be accountable for the quality of software design for the product team in which you are assigned, balancing technical debt against speed of delivery.
- Write and maintain high quality software.
- Grow the skills of other software engineers to take engineering to the next level.
- Work with the group architect to help inform technical strategy.
You have evidence of supporting the professional development of other engineers through coaching, mentoring and role modelling. We are looking for people with skills matching the team’s focus on LLM-based AI, cloud infrastructure (especially AWS), infrastructure as code, and service management.
Experience building AI applications/features and iterating based on user feedback.
- Agentic coding best practices: Implementing AI feedback loops, e.g. custom tests, linter, compilation etc.
- Experience with different AI coding tools.
- Experience developing servers and clients.
- Experience consuming existing servers and clients.
- Experience with semantic search and vector databases.
- Front-end development with Typescript, React and/or Material UI.
Benefits include competitive salary, comprehensive health coverage, monthly wellbeing allowance, flexible working arrangements, generous paid time off, employee assistance program, community and social events. 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.
We believe diverse teams are better at solving problems and fostering a creative culture. 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. If you need accommodation, please let us know via our application process or email careers@red-gate.com.
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.
