Forward Deployed Senior Software Engineer

Forward Deployed Senior Software Engineer

(Migration Tooling - RunMyJobs)

OUR MISSION

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

ABOUT US

Redwood Software is the leader in full-stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. Our flagship SaaS platform, RunMyJobs (RMJ), is the first composable automation platform specifically built for ERP environments. We enable organizations to orchestrate, manage, and monitor workflows across applications, services, and infrastructure - in the cloud or on premises.

Our global team of automation experts, engineers, and customer success professionals work together to deliver seamless automation transformations.

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 to RunMyJobs (RMJ).  This role is part of anexciting new Forward Deployed Engineering team within the Global Professional Services team, at 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 into RMJ.

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

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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

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

Required Qualifications

• 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 with AI-driven automation use cases.
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE LOOKS LIKE

• Reduced migration time and manual effort through reusable tooling.
• Improved reliability and predictability of RMJ onboarding.
• Strong collaboration across Migration Architects and Professional Services.
• Proactive identification of platform gaps and contribution to product evolution.
• Successful onboarding of complex enterprise customers onto RunMyJobs.

WHY JOIN US?

• Direct impact on strategic customer onboarding and revenue acceleration.
• Opportunity to shape migration frameworks for a category-leading automation platform.
• Work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• “One Redwood” culture focused on ownership and customer success.

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.

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