Sr. Software Engineer - Grid Events (Remote Eligible in UK)

As a global leader in Collaborative Work Management and with a market cap of $10bn we’ve experienced incredible growth in EMEA, expanding from one team and three engineers in 2018 to 9 teams with over 70 engineers in 2024. As we continue to expand our EMEA region, we're seeking a Senior Software 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 one of the Engineering Managers and can work remotely in 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
• Legally eligible to work in the UK on an ongoing basis

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
• 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)