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# Senior Software Engineer, Foundry

- **Company:** Hackajob Ltd
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £55,000.0 - £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C Sharp (Programming Language), Databases, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Rapid Prototyping Process, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Redgate, Software Coding
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-software-engineer/hackajob-ltd-job107752292

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.


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