Director, Engineering

Summary

Join Smartsheet as the Director of Engineering for Data Integrations & Automations and lead the engineering organization in building products that integrate enterprise data into our platform. You will inspire a talented team, focusing on continuous improvement, agile delivery, and high-quality development. This role requires extensive experience in system architecture, microservices, and managing software organizations. The position offers flexible work arrangements, including the option to work remotely from anywhere in the UK, from our Edinburgh or London offices. Smartsheet provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement contributions, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 11+ years of combined system architecture experience across multiple OSes, languages and frameworks
• 4+ years microservice or SOA based web application development
• 3+ years managing software organizations > 20 people or equivalent experience
• Experience with tools such as CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing, Beanstalk, EC2, Route 53, etc
• Experience with NoSQL DBs, Relational DBs, Object Store architectures across globally replicated cloud instances
• Experience building autoscaling distributed systems
• Skills are language, framework and toolset agnostic, having worked in at least 3 languages or paradigms, or equivalent experience
• BS or MS in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent industry experience
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and problem solving
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a passion for continuous improvement; build learning organizations that keep up with the state of the art and mentor your team
• Deliver products that delight customers while managing the health of the code base through continuous refactoring and management of technical debt
• Be an expert at agile continuous delivery, DevOps and TDD and advocate for the culture, processes, and tools required to maintain a frictionless high-quality development environment
• Dive deep into technology and be on the forefront of the latest tools and strategies; evaluate, prototype, and introduce them to your team
• Provide coaching and leadership in software best practices, automated test strategies, and work toward flattening the cost of change curve for our software products and services
• Demonstrate a track record of building high-performant and secure applications and build security principles into the DNA of products
• Communicate proactively to different kinds of audiences, including executives, customers and non-technical team members
• Be a talent magnet; find and develop great talent
• Positively influence the technical culture and morale across various groups

Preferred Qualifications

Java experience

Benefits

• Employer-paid Private Medical and Dental, additional cost for family members
• Equity - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for eligible roles
• 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 LinkedIn Learning online courses
• Company Funded Perks including a counseling membership, salary sacrifice options, and your own personal Smartsheet account
• Teleworking options from any registered location in the UK (role specific)