Java Developer II

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 technologies (like Elastic Search, Mongo DB, Storm, Kafka, S3) to solve very complex storage problems at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain backend services using Java (Spring Boot) and Python
• Build and consume RESTful APIs and implement microservices architecture
• Design and optimize data access layers using both SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB) databases
• Work with message brokers like Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ for event-driven and distributed system design
• Deploy and manage services on AWS Cloud using EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment
• Participate in code reviews, write unit/integration tests, and contribute to documentation
• Debug and resolve production issues, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 2–5 years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development
• Proficiency in Java (11+) and Spring Boot framework
• Solid programming knowledge in Python
• Experience with Apache Kafka or other messaging systems like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or Amazon SQS
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, and microservice patterns
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with AWS services for compute, storage, and deployment
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Good understanding of version control systems like Git
• Knowledge of clean code practices, object-oriented principles, and design patterns

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.