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.
As a Software Engineer III, you will be working for the development and evolution of the Engineering Platform’s APIs and UI. You will be executing the platform's roadmap, aligned with organizational objectives, and ensure its scalability, reliability, and extensibility. You will need deep technical expertise in full stack development and must have built engineering platforms for the internal development organizations.
Key Responsibilities
- API Development
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure RESTful APIs using Java and related frameworks (Spring Boot) to support platform capabilities around datastore and compute management.
- Implement business logic for provisioning, lifecycle management, and integration of services such as IAM MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch, S3, Kubernetes, Lambda and RDS.
- Ensure APIs adhere to best practices in security (OAuth, JWT), versioning, and documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger).
- UI Development
- Build responsive and intuitive front-end user interfaces for self-service platform portals using modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Collaborate with product owners to deliver a seamless user experience for managing platform services
- Integrate front-end components strongly with backend APIs ensuring performance, accessibility, and usability.
- Collaboration & Agile Delivery
- Work closely with platform engineers and architects in Agile/Scrum development cycles to deliver features, improvements, and fixes.
- Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and automated testing to maintain code quality and reliability.
- Performance Optimization & Security
- Optimize backend APIs and frontend applications for performance, scalability, and usability.
- Incorporate security best practices including input validation, encryption, and secure communication across front and back ends.
- Documentation & Support
- Produce clear technical design documents, API specs, and user guides.
- Assist in troubleshooting and supporting the platform software in development, staging, and production environments
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a full stack developer with strong proficiency in Java for backend API development (Spring Boot)
- Solid experience building RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, with knowledge of security and authentication protocols.
- Hands-on experience with front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js and modern JavaScript.
- Expertise with AWS cloud platform and integrating platform APIs with services like Kubernetes, Lambda, and various datastores is a plus.
- Working knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL), API documentation tools like Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks (JUnit, Selenium), and containerized development environments (Docker).
- Good understanding of Agile methodologies and excellent collaboration and communication skills.
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.