Sr. Software Engineer (Remote Eligible from Bulgaria)

Smartsheet; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Smartsheet is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work remotely from Bulgaria, contributing across backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, and test automation. You will drive reliability and scalability of services while deploying changes through CI/CD in an agile environment.

The role emphasizes mentoring junior engineers, collaborating with product managers and UX researchers, and applying innovative problem-solving to complex challenges in a fast-paced SaaS stack.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java or Golang.
• Experience designing, building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of users.
• Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, and coding best practices.
• Curiosity and a desire to understand how things work, with the ability to get to the root of complex problems.
• Strong communication skills, able to convey technical concepts clearly to both teams.

Responsibilities

• Work on all aspects of software development, including back-end, front-end, cloud infrastructure, and test automation.
• Drive high standards for internal services and open-source tools, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Deploy services and infrastructure changes frequently in an agile environment using full CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to product development across ideation, customer engagement, planning, design, execution, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, UX designers, and UX researchers.
• Mentor junior engineers, balancing customer delivery with high coding and infrastructure standards.
• Apply innovative problem-solving approaches and validate both your ideas and those of your teammates.
• Define success for your team and the features you help build and ship.

Skills

Java

Golang

Job description

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day.

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.

As a global leader in Intelligent Work Management with a market cap of $10bn, we’ve continued to scale our engineering presence internationally. Since expanding into Bulgaria in October 2024, we’ve grown to a team of 75+ engineers.

As we continue building this operation, we’re looking for a talented and motivated Senior Software Engineer who are passionate about continuous learning and excited to grow in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Smartsheet runs on a modern SaaS stack hosted on AWS, with infrastructure defined and managed as code using Terraform and strong engineering best practices. Our core platform includes a legacy Java monolith alongside a growing ecosystem of microservices, primarily built in Java and Go (with a small number of Kotlin services). On the front end, product teams that deliver UI experiences use React.

You will work remotely from Bulgaria and will be reporting to an engineering leader.

You Will:

• Work on all aspects of software development, including back-end, front-end, cloud infrastructure, and test automation.
• Drive high standards for internal services and open-source tools, ensuring reliability and scalability.
• Deploy services and infrastructure changes frequently in an agile environment using full CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to product development across ideation, customer engagement, planning, design, execution, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, UX designers, and UX researchers.
• Mentor junior engineers, balancing customer delivery with high coding and infrastructure standards.
• Apply innovative problem-solving approaches and validate both your ideas and those of your teammates.
• Define success for your team and the features you help build and ship.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

You Have:

• Proficiency in Java or Golang
• Experience designing, building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of users
• Familiarity with algorithms, data structures, and coding best practices.
• Curiosity and a desire to understand how things work, with the ability to get to the root of complex problems.
• Strong communication skills, able to convey technical concepts clearly to both te