Software Engineer – UI & Backend Services

As a Software Engineer on the ProArchive UI & Backend Services team, you'll build intuitive user experiences and the backend services that power them. Working across the full stack, you'll collaborate with engineers, designers, and product partners to deliver performant and reliable solutions.
We're looking for someone who is curious, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to a strong engineering culture.

As a Software Engineer on the ProArchive UI & Backend Services team, you'll build intuitive user experiences and the backend services that power them. Working across the full stack, you'll collaborate with engineers, designers, and product partners to deliver performant and reliable solutions.
We're looking for someone who is curious, collaborative, and motivated to contribute to a strong engineering culture.

How will you contribute?

• Build and maintain user-facing features with Vue.js, TypeScript, and Vuetify

• Translate UI/UX designs into performant implementations

• Design and evolve frontend architecture, tooling, and dependency management

• Work across the stack — contributing to Node.js/Fastify backend services and API integrations when needed

• Participate in code reviews and help reduce technical debt

• Apply Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices

• Participate in a shared on-call rotation focused on learning and prevention

What will you bring?

• Experience building web applications with TypeScript and a modern frontend framework (Vue.js preferred)

• Solid understanding of JavaScript fundamentals: ES Modules, async/await, closures, and the event loop

• Familiarity with SPA architecture and state management (e.g., Pinia)

• Experience integrating REST APIs and working with HTTP clients (e.g., Axios)

• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows

• Familiarity with component-based UI development and responsive design

• Experience with build tooling such as Vite and npm

• Clear communication of technical ideas, progress, and tradeoffs

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Vue.js 3 and the Vue ecosystem (Vue Router, Pinia, Vuetify)

• Familiarity with Node.js backend development (Fastify, Express, or similar)

• Experience with testing frameworks such as Playwright and Vitest

• Exposure to SQL Server, Docker, or AWS services

• Comfortable working across multiple repositories or codebases

• Interest in AI-assisted development — our team embraces an AI-first mindset using GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and Claude Code to accelerate productivity and deliver high-impact solutions

What do we offer?

• 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.

• Stock options.

• 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.

• 401K Match: Smarsh provides a 4% 401K match for which employees are fully vested on day one.

• Sabbatical: The Smarsh sabbatical programme provides a time to recharge, study or simply do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service.

• Recognition: We’re big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee-recognition programme enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition.

Don't meet every requirement? Apply anyway! We value diverse candidates and encourage applications, even if you don't perfectly match the job description. Studies have shown that some strong candidates may self-select out of the interview process prematurely, at Smarsh we encourage an inclusive, high-performing environment.

Smarsh is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Smarsh invites all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Including frequency of functions