Lead Software Engineer, Redgate Software
£70-85k
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1 day a week in office
Database DevOps and management solutions for developers
Be an early applicant
Database DevOps and management solutions for developers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£70-85k
More information about location
1 day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To solve the complex challenges of database management and ensure security across the DevOps lifecycle.
Role
Who you are
- You have exposure in modern .NET/ C#, Python and Typescript with expertise in at least one
- You can design and build world-class 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 have evidence of leading complex pieces of work, including leading the collaboration with other teams
- You are an excellent communicator, being able to distil complex technical decisions into clear rationale
- 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. You have evidence of supporting the professional development of other engineers through coaching, mentoring and role modelling
Desirable
- Cloud infrastructure (especially AWS), infrastructure as code, and service management
- Prompt engineering
- Experience building AI applications/features and iterating based on user feedback
- Agentic application frameworks e.g. Semantic Kernel, Langchain, Langraph , Strands agents etc
- Agentic coding best practises:
- Spec driven development
- Implementing supporting knowledge bases, e.g. opening access to searchable third-party codebases
- Implementing AI feedback loops, e.g. custom tests, linter, compilation etc
- Experience with different AI coding tools e.g. Cursor, VSCode agents, Claude code, Codex etc
- MCP: Experience developing servers and clients. Experience consuming existing servers and clients e.g. Claude desktop, cursor, etc
- AI feedback loops, agent observability and evaluation
- Experience with semantic search and vector databases
- Front-end development with Typescript, React and/or Material UI
What the job involves
- 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
- You will lead cross-team engineering initiatives and work with your architect to inform technical strategy
- 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
- Share technical decisions within the solution group, division and team
- Lead significant pieces of work including clarifying requirements, facilitating meetings, breaking tasks down and checking-in with other team members
- Write and maintain high quality software
- Grow the skills of other software engineers to take engineering to the next level
- Establish strong engineering practice and work to deliver the technical strategy
- Regularly contribute to internal Level Up events to support growing and developing skills within the division
- Work with the group architect to help inform technical strategy
- 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
Our take
As businesses become increasingly dependent on data, managing databases has become more complex. Companies need to move quickly while keeping systems secure and reliable. However, many still depend on manual processes and disconnected teams, making it harder to manage modern data infrastructure, especially as AI and cloud technologies continue to grow.
Redgate is helping companies tackle these challenges through database DevOps and lifecycle management tools. Its platform helps teams automate database changes, improve collaboration, and manage systems more efficiently and securely. Redgate, then, supports organisations throughout the full database development and deployment process.
More than 200,000 data professionals worldwide use Redgate's solutions too, signifying just how strong a position it has in the market. And with recent backing from Bregal Sagemount, the company plans to accelerate product innovation and expand even further so it can keep up with the ever-growing demand for secure, scalable data management.
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Company values
- We're reasonable: We treat everyone as we would want to be treated ourselves, even when the circumstances are difficult.
- We're ingeniously simple: Our best products and services are ingeniously simple. The same goes for how we work internally. We work best when we don't overcomplicate things.
- Transparency helps us continually improve: We make mistakes visible and share the evidence used to make decisions. No gossiping, no intrigue, no pussy-footing around problems.
- We do our best work in teams: We continually improve when we make the most of everyone's expertise. The company is more important than the team and the team is more important than the individual.
- When our customers succeed, so do we: At Redgate, your growth matters. You’ll have the freedom to develop the skills you want, in the way that works best for you—supported by guidance, resources, and encouragement every step of the way. Above are just a few of the ways we help people learn, grow, and thrive here.
- Don't be an asshole: No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly-defined tasks, there is no room for you here if you're an asshole.
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Jakub Lamik
(CEO)Jakub joined Redgate in 2019 as CPO, moving into the role of CEO in 2021. Previously, they spent nearly 9 years at Arm in various roles, including VP of Product.
Kate Duggan
(CMO)Kate joined Redgate in 2015 as a Product Marketing Manager, since then, they have held a number of roles and became the CMO in 2021. Previously, they spent over 3 years at enLight as a Business Development Director.
Cassi Roper
(CRO)Cassie joined Redgate in 2006 working in Renewal Sales, since then, they have held a number of roles and became the CRO in 2023.
Steven Mitchell
(CFO)Prior to joining Redgate in 2022, Steven was the CFO at Six Degrees Group and Dreamland Margate. They also spent 4 years at eir Ireland as a Corporate Finance Director, Interim Group CFO and Chief Strategy Officer.
David Gummer
(CPO)Prior to joining Redgate in 2022, David was the Global Head of Service Strategy & Portfolio Management at Finastra, a Director of Product Management at NGA Human Resources and a Director of Product Management & Alliances at Lumesse. They also spent 8 years at BT as the Head of Corporate Development, GM - Online (BT Directories) and Telemetry/M2M (BT Redcare).
Graham McMillan
(CTO)Prior to joining Redgate in 2024, Graham spent 9 years at Elsevier as an Integration & Data Architect, Director of Software Engineering, and VP of Engineering. Prior to that, they spent 7 years at Oracle as an Enterprise Architect Senior Director.
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