Senior Software Engineer in Newtown

Overview

As a Senior 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.

You will work on Redgate Monitor, our flagship monitoring solution, contributing to the ongoing evolution of a mature, high-impact product.

You will influence architectural decisions, improve system performance, and deliver features that benefit thousands of customers worldwide.

The role involves solving complex problems with clean, simple solutions, leading and contributing to large projects, and acting as a technical influencer within your team.

You will champion best practices and drive improvements in processes, tooling, and architecture that benefit the wider engineering organisation.

A key part of the senior role is elevating others through mentoring, coaching, teaching, and sharing expertise via conversations, documentation, and technical talks.

You will 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 foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and psychological safety.

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 user experience specialists to design, implement and improve the product's 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.
• Actively engaging with users to understand how the product is used in the real world and bringing customer empathy into 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, Postgre SQL, 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.
• Why Redgate

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

Benefits & Culture

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.

Redgate has adopted a flexible-hybrid model, allowing a blend of remote and office work.

We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and promoting inclusive language and behaviours.

We support personal and professional development.

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