Senior Software Engineer

Redgate; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development company in Cambridge seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join a cross-functional team enhancing their flagship monitoring solution. This role emphasizes architecture influence, feature development, and coaching peers. Candidates should excel in .NET / C#, thrive in agile environments, and be driven by continuous improvement. The company offers up to £75,000 in salary, a flexible-hybrid working model, and a comprehensive benefits package, creating a supportive culture for employee growth.

Benefits

Salary up to £75,000

Flexible-hybrid working model

Comprehensive benefits package

Mental wellbeing allowance

Generous paid time off

Qualifications

• Expert in modern .NET / C# development.
• Ability to design and build secure, scalable systems.
• Excellent communication, both written and verbal.
• Experience in agile environments.
• Bias for simplicity and maintainability in coding.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test world-class software.
• Provide guidance on software design challenges.
• Maintain high standards for code quality.
• Collaborate with user experience specialists.
• Identify tools to improve software engineering.

Skills

Modern .NET / C#

Scalable system design

Communication skills

Agile development

Unit testing

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

React

Job description

Redgate Software

Redgate creates simple software to help data professionals get the most value out of any database. Our solutions solve complex database management challenges across the DevOps lifecycle, making life easier for IT leaders, development, and operations teams by increasing efficiency, reducing errors, and protecting business‑critical data. The data community trusts Redgate to balance speed to market, team collaboration, and data protection.

Find out more about us here:

• Redgate Software – Culture
• Flexa Careers
• Glassdoor
• RepVue

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 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.
• 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 up to £75,000
• Flexible‑hybrid working model
• Great benefits package

Why join us?

At Redgate, 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. Find out more on our benefits page, or see what our employees said on our Flexa page!

Redgate has adopted a flexible‑hybrid model. This means that people will work flexibly with a blend of remote (home) and co‑located (office) work, with teams having the flexibility to decide which location best suits the outcomes they need to deliver.

Our diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging commitments

We believe diverse teams are better at solving problems and fostering a creative culture. We aim to offer a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can thrive.

• Recruitment & retention: hiring and retaining diverse talent.
• Authenticity & belonging: promoting inclusive language and behaviours.
• Growth: supporting personal and professional development.

We support DEIB through our inclusion forum (Belong at Redgate) and regular DEIB events. Redgate is an equal opportunity employer, welcoming applications from all backgrounds. If you need accommodation, please let us know via our application process or email [e-mail].

Learn more about our commitment to diversity on our diversity page.

While we outline the qualities we typically seek, we recognise that you may possess additional attributes and skills that could make you an excellent fit for our team. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.