Job Application for Forward Deployed Senior Software Engineer at Redwood Software

OUR MISSION

At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes.

ABOUT US

Redwood Software is the leading orchestration platform for the autonomous enterprise, driving business transformation at the lowest total cost of ownership. Redwood empowers organizations to intelligently automate and orchestrate mission-critical business and IT processes across complex ERP, hybrid cloud, data and emerging agentic AI systems. Through its SaaS-first automation fabric—with AI embedded across the automation lifecycle—Redwood accelerates the path to autonomous operations. Backed by 30 years of experience and trusted by more than 50% of the Fortune 50, Redwood helps organizations unlock human potential to focus on innovation, growth and what’s next.

CORE VALUES

One Team. One Redwood

Make Your Own Weather

Obsess over Customer Success

Work the Problem

Be Curious

Own the Outcome

Respect Each Other

YOUR IMPACT

We are seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer focused on migration tooling and customer onboarding. This role is part of an exciting new Forward Deployed Engineering team that is part of the Global Professional Services team that sits in the intersection of Product Engineering and Go To Market teams.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of engineering and delivery. Your primary focus will be designing, building, and enhancing migration frameworks, tooling, and automation accelerators that enable customers to smoothly transition from legacy schedulers and automation platforms.

This is a forward deployed engineering role — highly technical, impact-driven, and closely aligned to real-world customer migration challenges.

You will work closely with:

Migration Architects to design scalable and reusable migration patterns
Professional Services to enable efficient customer onboarding
Engineering & Product to improve platform capabilities based on field learnings
Customers (occasionally) to validate requirements, troubleshoot edge cases, and ensure successful implementations

Migration Tooling & Automation

Design and develop scalable migration tooling, scripts, and automation frameworks to accelerate onboarding into RunMyJobs.
Build reusable components to migrate workflows, jobs, dependencies, and configurations from legacy systems.
Identify migration bottlenecks and develop technical solutions to streamline data transformation and validation.
Contribute to internal tooling that increases migration repeatability, reliability, and speed.

Forward Deployed Engineering

Partner with Migration Architects to translate migration strategies into executable tooling and frameworks.
Support Professional Services during complex or high-impact migration engagements.
Troubleshoot migration-related production issues and resolve edge cases.
Occasionally engage directly with customer technical teams to understand source environments and validate solutions.

Platform & Product Collaboration

Provide structured feedback to Product and Core Engineering teams to improve RMJ migration capabilities.
Contribute to architectural discussions ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
Advocate for automation best practices in enterprise migration scenarios.

Engineering Excellence

Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code.
Implement automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end).
Contribute to CI/CD improvements for migration tooling.
Mentor team members and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.

YOUR EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent combination of practical experience. Overall experience 8+ years.
Strong professional experience in Java (Java 11/17+)
Experience building backend services, APIs, and automation tooling.
Experience with XML and JSON types, libraries like Jackson, Lombok
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Shell scripting, Gradle).
Familiarity with containerization (Docker) Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills in complex environments.
Experience with automated testing (JUnit, AssertJ, Mockito).
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally across engineering, architects, and delivery teams.
Experience with AI-driven automation use cases
Experience migrating enterprise systems or schedulers to modern SaaS platforms.
Background in automation, workload scheduling, or ERP environments.
SAP knowledge (ABAP, HANA).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
Experience in customer-facing or forward deployed engineering roles.
Experience with AI-driven automation use cases.

If you like growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

THE LEGAL BIT
Redwood is an equal opportunity employer. Redwood prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), sexual orientation, pregnancy or any other consideration made unlawful by regional or local laws. We also prohibit discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful and will have a zero tolerance policy applied to it.

Redwood will comply with all local data protection laws, including GDPR when it comes to the handling and processing of personal data. Should you wish for us to remove your personal data from our recruitment database, please email us directly at Recruitment@Redwood.com

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