Java Application Developer (III)

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.

Enterprise Archive is a cloud-based platform that stores and handles (archive/ search/discovery) over peta bytes of data. It uses cutting cloud scale (like Elastic Search, Mongo DB, Storm, Kafka, Hazelcast) to solve very complex storage problems at scale.

Location: Bangalore

Roles And Responsibilities

• Take ownership of assigned features or projects, including design, implementation, testing, and delivery.
• Develop scalable, high-quality, and reusable code for distributed and enterprise-grade systems.
• Collaborate with product management and senior engineers to analyze requirements and contribute to solution design.
• Proactively identify technical challenges and propose improvements to enhance system performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Participate in technical discussions within the team and contribute to cross-team initiatives.
• Support delivered features by debugging, root cause analysis, and production fixes.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers on best practices, coding standards, and system design.
• Work closely with peers to reduce technical debt and ensure long-term maintainability of the system.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by driving automation, adopting DevOps practices, and applying CI/CD principles.
  
  

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field with strong academic record.
• 3–5 years of professional experience in software development, preferably in large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong problem-solving ability with solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
  
  

Mandatory Skills

• Distributed Systems
• Java 17
• Spring Boot
• MongoDB
• Elasticsearch
• PostgreSQL (or any RDBMS)
• Kafka
• Microservices Architecture
• AWS knowledge
  
  

Nice To Have Skills

• Apache Storm
• Angular (UI frameworks)
• Python or other scripting languages
• DevOps concepts, CI/CD (Jenkins/Concourse)
• Kubernetes (K8s)
• Exposure to GenAI/Agentic workflows is a strong plus
  
  

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.