About Smartria
Smartria is the compliance-automation platform built for registered investment advisers. We’re building a modern, high-performance platform centered on a React + Python services architecture in AWS, with first-class accessibility, observability, and security. If you love designing clean APIs, crafting great UI, and shipping production systems that scale, you’ll feel at home here.
Job Duties
- Green-field development: Help design and ship the new React 18 + TypeScript front-end component library and the FastAPI services that power it.
- Design great interfaces: Define and evolve REST/gRPC contracts, schema designs, and domain models that are simple, consistent, and well-documented.
- Own the full lifecycle: Participate in sprint planning, architecture reviews, automated testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions → Argo CD → EKS), and post-release observability.
- Build for scale & compliance: Implement event-driven patterns with Kafka, enforce WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, and contribute to our ISO 27001/SOC 2 evidence pipeline.
- Ecosystem & AI: Help deliver OAuth-based integrations, marketplace add-ons, and collaborate with our AI team on platform services.
- Mentor & collaborate: Pair with front-end and data engineers, review PRs, and evangelize engineering best practices across the organization.
Our Platform Stack
Layer: Technology
Front-end: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Storybook, Jest, React Testing Library
Back-end: Python, FastAPI, Celery, gRPC, pydantic, SQLAlchemy
Data: MySQL 8 (Aurora), S3 + Iceberg (lakehouse), Redis, Kafka (MSK)
Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Argo CD, OpenTelemetry
Ops/Tooling: GitHub Actions, LaunchDarkly, Datadog, Grafana, Sentry
If you’re strong in similar technologies (e.g., Django, Express, Go, GraphQL) and eager to dive into ours, we’d still love to talk.
Technical & Educational Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely-related technical field – or – demonstrably equivalent professional experience.
3+ years developing production web apps, with deep expertise in either modern React or Python APIs and the curiosity to master both.
Proven experience migrating or refactoring legacy codebases into service-oriented or event-driven architectures.
Comfort with relational data modeling, performance tuning, and writing robust automated tests at multiple layers.
Practical DevOps chops: Docker-ising apps, debugging in Kubernetes, instrumenting metrics & traces.
A security-first mindset and appreciation for accessibility and inclusive design.
Familiarity with machine-learning pipelines or RAG patterns (you’d work closely with our AI team).
Excellent communication skills—you like writing clear ADRs and giving thoughtful PR feedback.
Why Smartria
- Impact: Your code will move thousands of transactions a day and keep RIAs on the right side of SEC regs.
- Modern stack: No legacy shackles; you’ll help shape the architecture from the ground up.
- Hybrid flexibility: Knoxville HQ preferred, remote U.S. considered for the right fit (±3 h ET strongly preferred).
- Competitive comp: solid base + bonus + 401(k) + full health/dental/vision.
- Team: Small and agile with direct access to the Head of AI & Engineering
