Backend Software Engineer – Zephyr Scale

At SmartBear, we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award-winning and industry favorite tools TestComplete, Swagger, ReadyAPI and Zephyr are trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. 

Zephyr Scale Software Engineer – Backend Developer

• 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 uses 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 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 such as improving the reuse of components among our different test management solutions, and 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:

• 3+ 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.

SmartBear offers: 

• Bonus 5% of annual salary
• Copyrights deductible costs (creative tax)
• 300 PLN of annual budget for fitness reimbursement 
• Employee referral program – 10 000 PLN gross for recommendation 
• Birthday Benefit – Employees will be given the day off on their birthday and can expense lunch
• Summer Fridays - Every Friday in July and August, offices will begin closing at 3 PM, and work hours will end
• Possibility of remote work, flexible working hours
• Breakfasts on Wednesdays, Lunches on Fridays and many other snacks in the office during the whole week
• Buddy program
• Integration events
• Access to Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning 
• Private Medical Care (LuxMed) and Multisport
• … and we are working on more ideas 😊

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.