Senior Software Engineer, Foundry

Red Gate; Town of Cambridge; Hybrid; AUD 105,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private health insurance

Learning and development

Wellbeing allowance

Paid time off

Job summary

Redgate is seeking a mid to senior level engineer for its Foundry, the innovation incubator that scans horizons for new opportunities. You will run horizon-scanning, ideation, rapid prototyping, and customer validation across a cross-functional team including software and ML engineers.

You’ll work with a varied tech stack (C#, TypeScript, Python) and engage directly with customers to validate ideas, balancing prototypes with executive product thinking.

Qualifications

• Proven experience using AI coding tools; strong awareness of limitations and safe usage.
• Solid software design and coding skills across modern languages.
• Hands-on experience building agentic systems with AI frameworks.
• Experience designing experiments to validate ideas quickly using prototypes and customer feedback.
• Comfortable engaging directly with customers and stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Product mindset focused on user value, outcomes and market fit.

Responsibilities

• Lead horizon-scanning, ideation, and early-stage research in a cross-functional team.
• Develop rapid prototypes and test hypotheses with customers to validate concepts.
• Balance technical prototypes with customer interviews and competitive teardowns.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists and product teams to steer experiments.
• Shape AI-enabled tooling adoption and contribute to strategy for product direction.
• Balance multiple projects in parallel while maintaining high quality and delivery velocity.

Job description

At a glance

Location: Cambridge

In-office expectation: Once every two weeks

Employment type: Permanent

Salary: £55,000-£80,000

This role will be a mid or senior level engineer dependant on experience

Why this role existsRedgate's Foundry is our innovation incubator, the team scanning the horizon for Redgate's next big opportunity. This role exists because that kind of work needs engineers who are genuinely excited by discovery: people who can form a hypothesis, test it fast, and make a clear-eyed call on whether to push forward or change course.

Most ideas won't become products. That's by design. Each experiment sharpens our thinking and improves the odds of finding the one that will. If you're motivated by that kind of challenge, where the destination isn't fixed and the work is never the same twice, this is the role for you.

About RedgateRedgate brings together people who want to do their best work in an environment built on trust, accountability, and collaboration.

We build solutions that help data professionals securely manage the data and databases that their organisations depend on, a space that's only becoming more critical as systems scale, data regulations increase, and AI adoption accelerates.

AI at RedgateBy 2028, Redgate will operate as an expert plus agent company: domain experts amplified by AI, delivering customer value at a pace our peers can't match. AI handles the heavy lifting, and our people control the judgement. Everyone at Redgate works with Claude, giving you access to the best AI tools from day one.

Why join our engineering team?

You’ll work in a team that cares about collaboration, craft and quality, not just in how we build, but in choosing what to build, finding the shortest path to the questions that matter most.

• There’s real scope to grow your skills and impact, with clear pathways and support.

• We value sustainable delivery, good ways of working and time to improve how we build.

About the role

The Foundry operates differently to the rest of Redgate's product teams. You won't be handed a roadmap. Instead, you’ll work across the full arc of innovation — from horizon-scanning and ideation through to early-stage research, rapid prototyping, and working directly with customers to validate what you're building.

You’ll be part of a small cross-functional team (a Tech Lead plus four to six Software and Machine Learning Engineers), and you’ll regularly run projects in parallel: contributing to ongoing experiments while also exploring entirely new directions. The tech stack is deliberately varied, the right tool for the job, not a fixed list, spanning C#, TypeScript, Python, and more across desktop, web, API, database, and ML development.

What makes this role different:

• You’ll work on problems where there is no established answer and you’ll have the autonomy to explore them seriously.

• Your work sits at the intersection of software engineering, customer insight, and product thinking; it’s rare to find all three in one role.

• You’ll use and help shape how Redgate adopts agentic coding and AI development tools, not as an afterthought, but as a core part of how the team works.

• The scope is genuinely broad: a typical day could see you balancing technical prototypes, customer interviews, and competitor teardowns.

What makes you a great fit

Proven experience using AI coding tools. You’ve used them extensively, understand their limitations, and have developed ways to work around them productively and safely.

• Strong software design and coding skills across modern languages, particularly C#, TypeScript, or Python, enough to guide and review AI-generated code with confidence.

• Hands‑on experience building agentic systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, Microsoft Agentic Framework, or MCP, with a solid understanding of LLM capabilities and risks.

• Experience designing and running experiments to validate ideas quickly, using technical prototypes, customer feedback, and lean startup principles to test assumptions and make clear decisions.

• Comfortable engaging directly with customers and stakeholders: running interviews, demos, and concierge‑style validation processes, and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• A product mindset; you think in terms of user value, outcomes, and market fit, not just features or technical delivery.

What we offer

• Salary range: £55,000-£80,000

• Hybrid working: home and Cambridge office

• Monthly wellbeing allowance and generous paid time off

• Genuine investment in learning, development, and career progression

• Private health insurance

• See our full list of benefits here - Careers At Redgate - Benefits

Belonging at RedgateWe believe that people do their best work in an environment built on respect, fairness, and trust and that diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes. Redgate is an equal opportunity employer, and we make hiring decisions based on skill, potential, and alignment with our values.

Compensation: £55K – £80K

• £55K – £80K