Java Developer II

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.

About Enterprise Archive

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:

• 25 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

Nice to Have:

• Experience with

  Docker

  ,

  Kubernetes

  , or other containerization technologies
• Exposure to

  stream processing

  frameworks (e.g., Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark)
• Familiarity with observability tools like

  ELK

  ,

  Prometheus

  , or

  CloudWatch

• Familiarity with search engines like

  Elasticsearch

• Relevant certifications in

  AWS

  ,

  Java

  , or

  Kafka

  are a bonus

Why Smarsh

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 worlds 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.