TL;DR

Application Engineer: Maintaining and evolving APIs for a self-service platform, designing scalable and secure applications to reduce operational overhead. Focus on continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellence across the platform estate.

Location: Remote

Company

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications, helping them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels.

What you will do

  • Maintain and evolve the APIs that provide self-service platform capabilities.
  • Design and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure applications.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, automation, and engineering excellence.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and Product Management to align platform capabilities with business objectives.
  • Ensure best practices in security, reliability, observability, and performance across the platform estate.
  • Contribute to strategic planning and help shape the technical roadmap.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on industry experience building and operating production software.
  • Strong experience developing API-driven applications using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Deep understanding of REST principles and experience designing resilient, secure, and scalable REST APIs.
  • Strong grounding in software engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI driven deployment workflows, and clean code principles.
  • Experience working in a “you build it, you run it” environment, with ownership of services from design through to production support.

Nice to have

  • Experience working within Platform Engineering teams.
  • Experience building APIs for internal engineering teams.
  • Experience working in regulated environments and building compliant workloads is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

  • 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.