Senior Software Engineer (Remote Eligible in UK)

Smartsheet is a tech company with a human story to tell. We’re here to empower teams to manage projects, automate workflows, and rapidly build new secure solutions, using simple no-code tools. We’re revolutionaries – so for us changing the way the world works is all in a day’s work.

Smartsheet is the $10bn market cap industry leader in the Collaborative Work Management space. We’ve grown in the UK from 1 team and 3 engineers in 2018, to 6 teams and 60+ engineers in 2024. Our engineering teams have the autonomy to drive technical decisions for their products, with interesting scale, security, usability, resilience, redundancy, and cloud multi-region technical challenges. We are seeking candidates who are eager to advance their careers and embrace a culture of continuous learning. At our company, we believe in providing opportunities for professional growth and development. If you are motivated, ambitious, and ready to take the next step in your career, we invite you to be part of a workplace that nurtures learning and encourages progress. Join us on this exciting journey of personal and professional development.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer with a strong background in distributed systems and event-driven architecture to join our Grid Events team. This team is responsible for building, maintaining, and improving our large-scale event processing system, which distributes billions of user events per day enabling highly anticipated feature requests and powering a 10x improvement in customer scale.

You will report to the Manager of Engineering and can work from our Edinburgh, UK or London, UK offices, or remotely from within the UK.

You Will:

• Work on all areas of the software from front end, back end, cloud infrastructure and test automation
• Drive high standards within the team for all internal services and open source tooling/libraries we maintain
• Deploy service and infrastructure changes frequently in a lean agile environment using full CI/CD
• Contribute in all aspects of product development: idea generation, customer engagement, planning, design, prototyping, execution, shipping, and operational excellence
• Collaborate with a team of passionate, engaged engineers, and with cross-functional teams that include product managers, UX designers, UX researchers, and more
• Actively mentor more junior engineers, showing how to balance customer delivery while holding high coding, service, and cloud infrastructure standards
• Apply different approaches to problem solving and help validate your ideas and those of your teammates
• Help define success for yourself, your team, and the features you help to conceive, build, and ship
• Perform other duties as assigned

You Are:

• Proficient with at least one of the following: Golang, Java, C or a C-style language, or Node.js
• Familiar with algorithms, data structures, and coding best practices
• Curious, and always want to get to the bottom of why things work the way they do
• A supportive leader. You want to help people get unstuck, and can easily recognise that teams are more effective when colleagues look for opportunities to help one another.
• A great communicator. You can break a concept down based on your audience, whether they’re technical or non-technical - and your medium, whether it’s verbal, in prose, or in code
• A builder who takes pride in your craft and works toward quality
• An empathic individual who can help translate customer feedback and needs into features that solve problems
• Someone who views bugs, mistakes, and compiler errors as opportunities to learn

You Have:

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Understands event-driven architecture’s principles, advantages and limitations, and can apply it appropriately
• Hands-on experience with Kinesis, Kafka, or similar
• Experience with Go or other C-like languages such as Java
• Experience with improving large-scale event processing systems is desirable
• Experience with database log streams e.g. MS-SQL Transaction Logs, MySQL Bin Logs is desirable
• Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Flink, Spark, or other is desirable
• Squad lead or team lead experience is desirable

Perks & Benefits:

• Employer-paid Private Medical and Dental, additional cost for family members
• Lucrative Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount)
• Monthly contributions toward your pension
• Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
• 25 days paid for Holiday + Bank Holidays + Flexible Time Away Program
• 20 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
• 12 weeks fully paid Paternity/Adoption Leave
• Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
• Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to Udemy online courses
• Company Funded Perks including a counseling membership, salary sacrifice options, commuter discounts, and your own personal Smartsheet account.
• Teleworking options from any registered location in the UK (role specific)

Get to Know Us:

At Smartsheet, we’ve created a place where everyone is welcome — people from all over the world, all backgrounds, all ages, all colors, and all beliefs working side by side. Here, everyone can make a difference and empower others to do the same. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match our job description—if your career path has been nontraditional, that will set you apart. At Smartsheet, we empower everyone, everywhere to change the way the world works—join us!

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, and Japan. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. 

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