Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Smartsheet's Grid Events team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining a large-scale event processing system handling billions of user events daily. This role involves working on all aspects of software development, from front-end to cloud infrastructure, in a lean agile environment. You will collaborate with a passionate team, mentor junior engineers, and apply your expertise in distributed systems and event-driven architecture. The position offers remote work options within the UK and a comprehensive benefits package. Smartsheet values diversity and encourages applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and career paths.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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 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)