SmartSuite · 1 month ago
Senior Developer / Technology Lead
Overland Park, KS
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expSmartSuite is an enterprise, AI-powered work management platform that helps organizations standardize and scale work across various pillars. They are seeking a Senior Developer / Technology Lead to own and evolve the Platform Integration layer, focusing on the automations engine, native integrations framework, and AI capabilities while collaborating closely with senior leadership and engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Own the Automations Engine
Lead the design and evolution of SmartSuite’s automation engine — triggers, workflows, scheduled jobs, event routing, retry logic, and observability
Improve reliability, latency, and throughput of automation runs at scale across thousands of customers
Design the Integrations Platform
Architect and implement a native integrations framework (e.g., Slack, Teams, Jira, Salesforce, email, webhooks, etc.) that is reusable, secure, and easy for other teams to extend
Standardize patterns for authentication (OAuth), rate limiting, error handling, and monitoring across all integrations
Shape Our AI Architecture
Partner with the CTO and product team to define how LLMs and other AI services are integrated into the platform (orchestration, routing, guardrails, observability)
Build the underlying services and patterns that power AI-driven automations, suggestions, and in-app assistants
Set Technical Direction & Standards
Drive architectural decisions around event-driven design, messaging, and service boundaries
Raise the bar on code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence across the platform
Lead, Mentor, and Collaborate
Act as the technical lead for a small but growing team focused on automations, integrations, and AI
Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, and other Engineering teams to translate business needs into resilient technical solutions
Own Production Outcomes
Investigate and resolve complex production issues, especially around workflow execution and integration reliability
Use data and metrics to prioritize improvements and proactively address scaling bottlenecks
Qualification
Required
Must live in the Kansas City area
~10+ years of professional software development experience with at least several years building multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Proven experience designing and implementing workflow, automation, integration, or iPaaS-style systems
Proven experience building cloud-native applications using TypeScript and/or GoLang within AWS environments
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, serverless systems, and distributed computing patterns
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS, Lambda)
Familiarity with messaging and streaming systems such as Kafka or SQS
Hands-on experience building API-first architectures and scalable multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with webhooks, SDKs, or developer-facing integration surfaces
Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, observability, and DevOps best practices
Comfortable with logging, metrics, tracing, and building the dashboards that keep complex systems healthy
Comfortable acting as a tech lead: making tradeoffs, aligning stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and driving execution
Strong communication skills — able to explain complex architecture clearly to both technical and non-technical partners
Preferred
Experience with LLM APIs or other AI services is a plus — or a strong desire to dive deep and own AI-related architecture and integration patterns
Company
SmartSuite
SmartSuite is a work management platform that integrates databases, spreadsheets, documents, collaboration tools, and automation.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$38MKey Investors
Canapi Ventures
2025-02-20Series A· $13M
2022-01-05Seed· $25M
Leadership Team
Tara Darbyshire
Co-Founder, EVP Strategic Accounts & Partnerships
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