Senior Software Engineer

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.