Remote Full Stack Developer

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.

Smarsh is seeking a Senior Full-stack Rails Software Engineer to join our fast-growing Software Development Team that is committed to perfecting the client experience. We’re looking for motivated senior software engineer to lead the iterative development and delivery of high-quality product features and applications. You will be a core member of our engineering team and help build innovative solutions and streamlined user experiences for our cloud-based product. You will be expected to challenge assumptions and provide insightful feedback to continuously promote ongoing technical development through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship. Someone who embraces new opportunities, is motivated by professional advancement, demonstrates curiosity, enjoys problem solving, delivers excellence, and thrives in a changing, fast-growth environment is the ideal candidate. The candidate will work cross-functionally with the larger Smarsh team on several high-impact and high-visibility projects.

How will you contribute?

• Collaborate with product, design, and business teams to identify and execute optimal solutions with a focus on business impact, product polish, and code quality.
• Develop new features and functionality for cybersecurity and vendor risk management SaaS products using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and React.
• Build JSON based REST Web services, backend processing jobs and integrations with external data providers.
• Produce high quality, secure, performant, testable Ruby code.
• Identify ideas to improve system performance and efficiency.
• Contribute to our development standards, architecture, technical strategy, and overall process within the team and across engineering.
• Keep abreast of industry best practices
• Other duties as assigned

What will you bring?

• 6+ years developing web-based applications, software development and design.
• 4+ years of experience working as a Ruby on Rails developer.
• Proficient in programming concepts around API services and Interfaces (JSON, OpenAPI, RESTful).
• Proficient in modern JavaScript development.
• Experience with at least one relational database, preferably Postgres.
• Some experience with a modern front-end framework such as React (preferred), Angular or Vue.
• Experience with Webpack, Babel and building cross browser supported web applications.
• Understanding and knowledge of Git and branching workflows.
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment.
• Extensive experience with unit and integration tests such as rspec or minitest.
• Experience with RESTful web services API design and development.
• Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to work productively as part of a team and self-manage assigned tasks and projects.
• Champion of usability and clean design, maintaining the high bar that our clients continue to give us positive feedback on.

Desired (but not required):

• Ability to write responsive, mobile friendly HTML/CSS layouts using React for great UX in accordance with requirements.
• REDIS caching solutions.
• Devops familiarity, containerization, infrastructure as code, AWS.
• Technology risk, infosec or cybersecurity background

$155,000 - $175,000 a year

The above salary range represents Smarsh’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. Any applicable bonus programs will be discussed during the recruiting process. The salary for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, location, specialty and training. Local cost of living assessments are done for each new hire at the time of offer.

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.