Sr. Software Engineer - Java

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. They are looking for a Senior Java Developer to join their R&D Server team, where the candidate will take a leading technical role in the design and evolution of product capabilities, owning complex problems and ensuring high engineering quality across diverse technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Own the design, development, and maintenance of complex Java-based backend services across both secure federal enclave and AWS production environments, with minimal oversight
• Drive architecture decisions, define scalable system patterns, and set technical standards for code quality and performance across the team
• Provide technical leadership within an Agile Scrum team: lead design and code reviews, guide sprint planning and estimation, and mentor mid-level and junior engineers
• Lead production troubleshooting and incident response, driving root-cause analysis and long-term reliability and performance improvements across diverse runtime environments
• Partner cross-functionally with DevOps, QA, Product, and Security teams to shape delivery plans, ensure operational readiness, and resolve cross-team technical blockers
• Represent the team in broader architecture reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices beyond the immediate team

Requirements:

• At least 6 years of professional Java development experience, including demonstrated ownership of complex, production-grade systems
• Expert-level object-oriented programming skills and deep understanding of Java internals, including JVM behavior, garbage collection, and memory management
• Strong track record in software engineering principles, including system design, architecture ownership, and driving best coding practices across a team
• Extensive hands-on experience with multi-threaded and concurrent programming in production systems
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, and influencing technical direction within a team
• Proven ability to work independently across both federal enclave and cloud-based (AWS) environments, including navigating compliance and security constraints with limited guidance
• Solid, production-level experience with Spring / Spring Boot and microservices architecture
• Experience working with or supporting secured / restricted-access environments, including FedRAMP, is a plus
• Experience supporting a FedRAMP certified product in production, including familiarity with audit and compliance processes
• Strong DevOps orientation, with experience designing CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and operational tooling strategy
• Experience integrating AI/ML tools or frameworks into production systems
• Deep background in microservices architecture at scale, including asynchronous (Kafka, messaging queues) and synchronous (RESTful APIs) communication models
• Strong test-oriented mindset, with experience establishing testing standards (unit, component, automation) for a team
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration platforms, including operational ownership
• Experience with Kafka event-driven systems at scale
• Experience conducting system design reviews and providing technical guidance to peers across teams
• Familiarity with profiling tools, code coverage tools, CI/CD systems, and capacity planning or cost optimization in cloud environments