Engineering Manager, Smarsh
$170-190k
Cloud-based archiving and compliance solutions
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Cloud-based archiving and compliance solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$170-190k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable customers to take advantage of the latest communication and collaboration tools, while staying ahead of compliance risk.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader, an excellent communicator, and someone who thrives in an Agile environment where mentorship, ownership, and collaboration are key
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java development, including strong expertise with Spring / Spring Boot
- 2+ years of experience leading a development team or providing significant technical leadership
- Strong understanding of OOP, Java internals, concurrency, and multi-threaded programming
- Proven experience in designing and implementing distributed backend systems and microservices
- Hands-on experience working within secure or federal enclave environments or similar highly restricted environments
- Practical experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures
- DevOps-oriented mindset, familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, automation, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Strong communication skills and ability to lead both people and technology.Experience with production environments, monitoring, metrics, and performance optimization
- Experience supporting FedRAMP-certified products
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with Kafka or other event-driven messaging systems
- Familiarity with Redis, Oracle, or PostgreSQL databases
- Experience with Jenkins, Grafana, ELK, GitHub Actions or similar tools
- Strong testing mindset (unit, component, integration)
- Experience with large-scale microservices architectures
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Manager of Engineering to lead our US Server team
- This role involves managing and mentoring a team of Java developers, while also providing strong technical leadership across system architecture, design, and implementation
- You will guide the team in developing new product capabilities and enhancing existing ones across both our federal enclave environment and our AWS-based cloud production environment
- This position includes dual responsibility across two major domains
- Leading, designing, and supporting capabilities within our federal enclave, including strict compliance requirements, secure development practices, and constrained deployment workflows
- Driving cloud-native development in AWS, improving our services, reliability, scalability, and efficiency with modern DevOps practices and tooling
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Java developers, including hiring, coaching, performance reviews, and professional development
- Own technical design and architecture decisions across services deployed in both federal enclave and AWS cloud environments
- Guide team members in delivering high quality, secure, and scalable backend systems
- Promote engineering best practices, including code quality, system design, test coverage, DevOps, and security
- Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Security teams to ensure high quality and compliant releases
- Oversee production troubleshooting, root cause analysis, system tuning, and operational improvements
- Drive innovation, evaluate new tools and technologies, and continuously improve engineering processes
- Lead Agile ceremonies and ensure predictable, high quality delivery
Our take
The emergence of new digital communication technologies provides businesses with a great opportunity for growth. But regulated businesses need to ensure they carry out communications monitoring, archiving, and compliance to stay on the right side of regulators. This can be difficult to do with new tech - to the extent that some businesses are hesitant to adopt it at all.
Of course, there’s a substantial appetite for ways to get around this obstacle and therefore reap the business benefits of modern comms. Smarsh provides just that, with its suite of archive, storage, and monitoring tools. In the two decades since its founding, the platform has netted over 6,500 clients including top worldwide banks, brokerage firms, insurers, registered investment advisors, and state and local government agencies in the US.
This puts Smarsh in a formidable position going forward. The issue the company addresses is only getting more acute as the volume of communications increases, more tech is brought to market, and the hybrid work model pushes more communications online. Smarsh’s extensive, top-tier global reach will help it field this growing market opportunity.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2015
$28m
LATE VC
Sep 2007
$15.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $43.6m
Company benefits
- Healthcare insurance: We provide medical, dental and vision insurance and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses
- Personal time off: A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a "take-what-you-need" time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements
- Recognition: We're big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee recognition program enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition
- Life and disability insurance: Fully paid life and disability insurance coverage is provided from the day you start your job
- Wellness program: You're happier when you're healthier. So we reimburse a portion of employees' monthly health club expenses
- Retirement savings: We match a percentage of your retirement savings contributions. Smarsh employer match invests immediately, so it's yours from day one
- Sabbatical: The Smarsh sabbatical program provides a time to recharge, study or simply a time to do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service
- Giving back: Through our community partnership program, Full Circle, employees make a positive difference and receive paid time off for Full Circle activities so they can support the organizations that matter most to them
- Employee assistance program: We offer free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals and follow-up services to employees for personal or work-related issues to support their mental and emotional well-being
- Cellphones: To support our mobile and geographically dispersed workforce, we offer corporate cellular plan discounts with both AT&T and T-Mobile
- Getting here and home: Biking and taking public transit to work is not only cool but a smart and green thing to do. Smarsh proudly reimburses for monthly transit costs and biking expenses
- Parental leave: We want to support our colleagues who are starting a family. Smarsh offers paid leave to help you welcome your new bundle(s) of joy into the world
Company HQ
Portland Downtown, Portland, OR
Leadership
Stephen Marsh
(Founder & Chairman)Previously worked on capital market systems at Fidelity Investments, and then moved to a Senior Product Manager role at CCBN. They are also a board member at The Wild, Asset Compliance Inc., and ComplySci.
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