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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and implement scalable applications, solve business problems, and create automated tests. You will work closely with stakeholders to ensure high-quality products and services, employing an agile development approach.
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 Backend
Zephyr Enterprise
- Solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications
- Design, document and implement new systems in Java 8
- Build microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON and XML
Product intro:
Zephyr Enterprise is transforming to better align our products to the end users’ requirements while maintaining our market-leading position and strong brand reputation across the Test Management Vertical.
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About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of this transformation and will be solving challenging business problems and building highly scalable and available applications that provide an excellent user experience. Reporting to the Lead Engineer, you will be required to develop solutions using available tools and technologies and assist the engineering team in problem resolution by hands-on participation, effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
- You will write code per product requirements and create new products, create automated tests, contribute to system testing, and follow an agile mode of development.
- You will interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.
- Develop scalable, real-time, low-latency data egress/ingress solutions in an agile delivery method, create automated tests, contribute to system testing, and follow an agile mode of development.
We are looking for someone who can design, document, and implement new systems, as well as enhancements and modifications to existing software with code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java best practices. Have 4-7 years of experience with hands-on experience working in Java 17 platform or higher and hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required.
- API - driven development - Experience working with remote data via SOAP, REST and JSON and in delivering high-value projects in Agile (SCRUM) methodology using preferably the JIRA tool.
- Good Understanding of OOAD, Spring Framework and the Microservices-based architecture
- Experience with Applications Performance Tuning, Scaling, Security, Resiliency Best Practices
- Experience with Relational or NoSQL databases, level design and core Java patterns
- Experience with AWS stack, RDS, S3, Elastic cache, SSDLC, Agile methodologies and development experience in a SCRUM environment.
- Experience with Messaging Queues, preferably RabbitMQ.
- Experience with the Atlassian suite of Products and the related ecosystem of Plugins
- Experience with React, JavaScript is good to have.
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 organisation - 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 Built-in Best Places to Work.
SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our 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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Top Skills
AWS
Elastic Cache
Java 17
Java 8
JavaScript
JIRA
JSON
Microservices
RabbitMQ
Rds
React
Rest
S3
Soap
Spring Framework
XML
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