Java Application Developer

Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Own the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of features assigned to the team.
• Solution Architecture: Collaborate with stakeholders to define architectural approaches, review designs, and ensure scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Feature Ownership: Take complete ownership of features, from requirement analysis to production deployment and support.
• CI/CD & DevOps Integration: Build reusable integrations for third-party DevOps tools (e.g., Concourse, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, monitoring platforms, and container registries) to streamline workflows.
• API Development: Ensure APIs are well-documented, versioned, and meet performance, security, and compliance standards.
• Data Pipeline Development: Design and implement scalable data pipelines for data transformation, aggregation, and visualization.
• Production Support: Debug production issues, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and drive both short-term and long-term fixes.
• Mentorship & Best Practices: Guide junior developers, enforce best coding practices, and contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing
  
  

Required Experience & Skills

• Education:
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or a related field with a strong academic record.
• Experience Required- 3-6 yrs
• Problem Solving & Algorithms: Strong problem-solving skills with expertise in data structures and algorithms.
• Microservices & Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience with microservices architecture and distributed computing
• Programming Expertise:
• Primary: Java (expert level)
• Secondary (Plus): Python, Golang, or any other backend languages
• DevOps & CI/CD:
• Experience integrating third-party DevOps tools like Concourse, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and ArgoCD.
• Hands-on experience in automating CI/CD pipelines.\
• Cloud & Containerization: Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Messaging & Event-Driven Systems: Knowledge of Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar queuing systems.
• Databases: Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or other relational/non-relational databases.
• Security & Compliance: Knowledge of API security, authentication mechanisms, and compliance best practices.
• Collaboration & Communication: Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment and communicate technical concepts effectively.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Helm.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Exposure to service meshes like Istio or similar tools
  
  

About Our Culture

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.