The Sr. Software Engineer will design and develop Java-based services in federal and AWS environments, collaborating within an Agile team for system reliability and optimization.
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.
Summary
We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our R&D Server team. In this role, you will design and develop both new and existing product capabilities, working across a diverse set of technologies and architectures. This position also provides the opportunity to develop and support services within our federal enclave environment, alongside our cloud based workloads. Developing and supporting features within our federal enclave environment, requiring careful attention to compliance, security, and constrained deployment workflows. Building, enhancing, and maintaining services in our AWS-based production environment, leveraging modern cloud-native tooling and infrastructure. The ideal candidate is someone who loves to self-learn, shares expertise with peers, and thrives in an Agile, collaborative, and warm team environment.
Our tech stack includes Redis, Oracle, PSQL, Kafka, Spring, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Grafana, ELK, Maven, and GitHub.
How will you contribute?
- Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend services across both secure federal enclave and AWS production environments.
- Contribute to architecture design, code quality, performance optimization, and scalable system patterns.
- Collaborate closely within an Agile Scrum team and provide mentorship, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
- Participate in production troubleshooting, analysis, and improvements across diverse runtime environments.
- Work with DevOps, QA, and Product teams to ensure smooth delivery, operational readiness, and high system reliability.
What will you bring?
- At least 3 years of professional Java development experience (exceptional candidates with slightly less may be considered).
- Strong object-oriented programming skills and deep understanding of Java internals.
- Solid experience in software engineering principles, including system design, architecture, and best coding practices.
- Hands-on experience with multi-threaded programming.
- Ability to adapt development workflows to both federal enclave and cloud-based (AWS) environments.
- Advantages
- Experience working with or supporting secured / restricted-access environments is a plus.
- Experience supporting a FedRAMP certified product in production.
- DevOps-oriented mindset, with exposure to CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and operational tooling.
- Experience working with or integrating AI/ML tools or frameworks.
- Background in microservices architecture, including asynchronous (Kafka, messaging queues) and synchronous (RESTful APIs) communication models.
- Strong test-oriented mindset (unit tests, component tests, automation).
- Experience with Spring / Spring Boot.
- Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with Kafka event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with profiling tools, code coverage tools, and CI/CD systems.
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.
Top Skills
AWS
Docker
Elk
Git
Grafana
Java
Jenkins
Kafka
Kubernetes
Maven
Microservices
Oracle
Psql
Redis
Spring
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