Principal Software Engineer

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/Specialist you will work as part of a highly skilled team of professionals who are responsible for architecture, design and development of cost effective and sustainable solutions for Digital Safe business of Smarsh. Strong organizational skills, technical expertise and attention to detail are key in this technical role.

Responsibilities:
• Design, Architect and Build highly complex enterprise software applications.
• High level ability to articulate complex technical concepts to team and other stake holders.
• Translate business requirements to appropriate technical solutions keeping simplicity at the core.
• Research, identify, test, certify, and select technology required for solution delivery.
• Maximize the performance, uptime, and supportability of the product.
• Developing highly scalable services using technologies such as Java,J2EE, Jetty, REST/SOAP, Postgres, Spring.
• Working with team to design solutions to security problems, monitor and analyze the security vulnerabilities reported in bundled 3rd party products.
• Design and implement new interface components in collaboration with the product owner and other Smarsh development teams.
• Maintain the existing components and resolve problems reported by customers.
• Enhance existing components with new capabilities whilst maintaining compatibility.
• Provide feedback on test plans, test cases, and test methodologies.
• Research new technologies for product improvements and future roadmap.
• ·Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders, provide project progress, highlight any risks involved along with mitigation plan.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members.

Desired skills & experience:
• 12+ years in JAVA server-side application development. Experience in any of the JavaScript based UI technologies is a plus.
• Experience in highly scalable SAAS product using technologies such as Java,J2EE, REST/SOAP, Database, Spring.
• Strong programming skills in Java, J2EE.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact effectively with both technical and non-technical staff.
• Fair technical understanding in IT infrastructure and DevOps is a plus.
• Understanding of operational challenges involved in managing large systems.
• Technical execution of project activities and responsibilities for on-time delivery and results.
• Interfacing with customer facing functions to gather project requirements and performing due diligence as required.
• Providing technical guidance for trouble shooting and issue resolution when needed.
• Familiarity with Agile Software Development (preferably Scrum).
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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.