Senior Software Engineer

At SmartBear, we believe building great software starts with quality—and we’re helping our customers make that happen every day. Our solution hubs—SmartBear API Hub, SmartBear Insight Hub, and SmartBear Test Hub, featuring HaloAI, bring visibility and automation to software development, making it easier for teams to deliver high-quality software faster. SmartBear is trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. 

Senior Software Engineer - Java

Zephyr Scale

• Solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications.
• Design, document and implement new systems in Java 8 and 17.
• Build and deploy services based on the AWS platform.
• Work with a high-performance team, working with continuous delivery and heavy test automation.

Product intro

Zephyr Scale provides test management capabilities to Atlassian products, working as a plugin/extension for Jira and Confluence, for managing both manual and automated testing processes. Using AI, users can transform their manual tests into automated tests, and accelerate their delivery cycles.

The Atlassian Marketplace is the main distribution channel of Zephyr Scale. Having great success over the years, Zephyr Scale is one of the top-selling apps in the Atlassian Marketplace, experiencing huge growth with more than hundreds of thousands of monthly active users.

From an engineering perspective, we use native Cloud solutions on AWS, deploying multiple times a day, and using microservices. Our high-performance team of engineers use many of the modern good practices for software development, such as (a lot of) test automation, test-driven development (TDD), continuous delivery, progressive rollouts and more.

Please, visit our product page if you want to know more about Zephyr Scale.

You can even have a free trial to check it out!

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer (backend) you will be working on improving the product and adding capabilities for our thousands of users. You can look forward to working with our best and brightest engineers, product managers, and UX folks. 

• Tackle interesting challenges as improving the reuse of components among our different test management solutions, working with a single page application and a fully automated pipeline for continuous integration and deployment.
• Work with several technologies and languages – Java, Spring, Terraform, Docker, AWS (RDS Aurora, S3, ECS, Cloudfront and more), Redis and others.
• Work within a collaborative high-performance team of developers, testers (for test automation), support engineers and more, geographically spread across our different locations –UK, Poland, France, India and Brazil.
• Implement new functionality in close cooperation with the team and users.
• Engage in peer design and code reviews.
• Maintain test coverage.

We are looking for you if you have

• 4+ years of Java development experience and hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable code.
• Knowledge of software testing using different approaches or tools such as BDD, TDD, unit testing, integration testing and performance testing.
• Knowledge of design patterns and best practices.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable code.
• Experience with RDBMS (E.g. MySQL) - schema / query design & implementation.
• Exposure to Docker and containerization.
• Exposure to Agile software development.
• English on at least B2 level.

Desirable

• Experience with microservices.
• Experience with the AWS platform, particularly with DynamoDB, ECS, S3, Lambda and RDS Aurora.

Why you should join the SmartBear crew

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.
• We’ve won major industry(product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status.

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