Senior Software Engineer, Foundry

Redgate Software, Inc; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private health insurance

Wellbeing allowance

Career progression

Job summary

Redgate's Foundry team invites a mid or senior software engineer to explore uncharted ideas, run rapid prototyping, and validate concepts with customers. You’ll join a small cross‑functional group and shape how AI tooling influences product direction.

The role emphasizes experimentation, learning, and collaboration, with a focus on solving ambitious problems and delivering real customer value. Hybrid work in Cambridge is supported.

Qualifications

• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools.
• Strong design and coding skills in modern languages.
• Ability to design and run rapid experiments to validate ideas.

Responsibilities

• Work across horizon-scanning to early-stage research and prototyping.
• Prototype and validate ideas with customers to inform decisions.
• Collaborate in a small cross-functional team across multiple projects.
• Balance technical prototypes with customer interviews and competitive teardowns.

Skills

AI coding tools

Software design

C#/TypeScript/Python

Experimentation

Customer interviews

Tools

LangGraph

Agentic Framework

MCP

Job description

In-office expectation: Once every two weeks

Employment type: Permanent

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

Why this role exists

Redgate'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 Redgate

Redgate 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.

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 choosingwhatto 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

• 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

Belonging at Redgate

We 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.