Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

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. 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 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, you’ll contribute to the ongoing evolution of a mature, high-impact product. You’ll 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 team. In 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

• 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, 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, 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 (1 day every two weeks)

• Great benefits package