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 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 into RMJ.
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 equivalent practical experience.
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 [email protected]
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong professional experience in Java (Java 11/17+)
- Experience building backend services, APIs, and automation tooling
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Experience in customer-facing or forward deployed engineering roles
Redwood Software Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as competitive or above average, with broad satisfaction around compensation and benefits. Earnings potential is portrayed as particularly strong in customer-facing revenue roles, reinforcing a positive total-rewards baseline.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as especially strong in the U.S., including instances of fully employer-paid insurance. Medical value is framed as a standout element of the overall package even when plan choice is narrower.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are characterized as notably strong, with a frequently highlighted and “fantastic” 401(k) match. This strengthens the perceived long-term value of the package beyond cash compensation.
Redwood Software Insights
What We Do
Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our unparalleled solutions empower organizations to orchestrate, manage and monitor their workflows across any application, service or server – in the cloud or on premise – with confidence and control
