Director, Engineering

Summary

Join Smartsheet as the Director of Engineering for Data Integrations & Automations and lead our engineering organization in building products that help large companies integrate their data into our platform. You will inspire a talented team, focusing on continuous improvement, agile delivery, and high-quality development. Based in Edinburgh or London, or remotely in the UK, you'll be responsible for delivering customer-delightful products, managing technical debt, and fostering a positive technical culture. You'll need extensive experience in system architecture, microservices, and managing software organizations. Smartsheet offers a comprehensive benefits package, including private medical and dental, pension contributions, paid time off, and flexible work options.

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
• Your 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
• Legally eligible to work in the UK on an ongoing basis

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a passion for continuous improvement; have built learning organizations that keep up with the state of the art and are an example and mentor to 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 will advocate for the culture, processes, and tools required to maintain a frictionless high-quality development environment
• Dive deep into technology and are on the forefront of the latest tools and strategies and help evaluate, prototype, and introduce them to our 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
• Demonstrated track record of building high performant and secure applications and build security principals into the DNA of products
• Communicate proactively to different kinds of audiences, including executives, customers and non-technical team members
• You are a talent magnet; you have experience finding and developing great talent
• Positively influence the technical culture and morale across various groups
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

Java experience a plus!

Benefits

• Employer-paid Private Medical and Dental, additional cost for family members
• 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, and your own personal Smartsheet account
• Teleworking options from any registered location in the UK (role specific)