Sr. Software Engineer - Automate

Fortra is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to contribute to the future of its Automate platform. The role involves designing and building capabilities for a mature .NET and C# automation product, maintaining platform health, resolving complex defects, mentoring engineers, leading technical projects, and helping the team use AI coding tools effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Execute on the development of new platform capabilities, translating Product requirements into implementation, test, and release plans. This includes writing technical specifications that turn a product requirement into a design the team can build against
• Identify and evaluate new technologies where appropriate, including AI capabilities that become part of the product itself
• Work across a large .NET and C# codebase spanning the desktop client, server components, and the database layer
• Diagnose and fix complex defects that cross component boundaries, including issues reported by customers running in production
• Keep pace with the foundational application work that is not optional: runtime and framework upgrades, dependency and security remediation, and the platform health that keeps the product supportable
• Participate fully in the development lifecycle, from design through release
• Mentor less experienced engineers through pairing, code review, and direct feedback
• Raise the standard for code reviews: catch and articulate problems when they arise, and explain the reasoning so the lesson sticks
• Serve as technical expert on projects and lead them when needed, including breaking work down, sequencing it, and keeping progress visible
• Help set the standard: contribute to the conventions, patterns, and quality gates the team builds against, and make the reasoning clear enough that people follow them by choice
• Track and document technical trade-offs and implementation decisions, so the reasoning behind the system survives the people who made it
• Speak up early when something is going to be late, is riskier than it first looked, or is being built the wrong way
• Use AI coding tools in your daily work and help the team do the same, with a clear view of where they help and where they do not
• Treat AI-generated code as unverified until it has been reviewed and tested. We want engineers who can tell the difference between code that looks right and code that is right
• Share what works: prompts, patterns, guardrails, and review practices that make the team faster without lowering quality
• Help shape our engineering practice as these tools evolve, including where AI belongs in testing, documentation, and code review, and where it does not

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep hands-on .NET and C# work, including both .NET Framework 4.8 and modern .NET
• Strong grasp of object-oriented design, design patterns, and modern software engineering practices
• Proficiency with Microsoft SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning
• Experience with full stack, on-premises software delivery, where you cannot push a fix in an hour and the customer controls the upgrade
• Experience on large, long-lived, complex codebases
• Experience writing unit tests, and a point of view on what makes a test worth keeping
• Git, dependency injection, and working knowledge of Agile delivery
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and build and release tooling, ideally including GitLab
• A track record of mentoring other engineers, whether or not you have held a formal lead title
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English, and comfort working across time zones on a distributed team
• Practical experience using AI coding assistants on production work, and the judgment to know when not to