Junior Backend 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.

Junior Backend Engineer - Zephyr

• Solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications.
• Design, document and implement new systems.
• Java 8+, SQL.

Product intro:

Zephyr provides test management capabilities to Atlassian products, working as a plugin/extension for Jira and Confluence, for managing both manual and automated testing processes.

Go to our product page if you want to know more about Zephyr.

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

About the role:

As a Junior Backend Engineer 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, and product managers. 

• Tackle interesting challenges such as improving the reuse of components among our different test management solutions, handling parallelism, large amounts of data, working with Terraform to provision 100% of our infrastructure and a fully automated pipeline for continuous integration and deployment.
• Work with several technologies and languages – Java, Spring, JavaScript/Typescript/React, Terraform, Docker, AWS (RDS Aurora, S3, ECS and more) 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:

• 1+ years of Java development experience.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable code.
• Knowledge of design patterns and best practices.
• Experience in modern version control systems such as Git.
• Knowledge of software testing using different approaches or tools such as BDD, TDD, unit testing, integration testing and performance testing.
• English on at least B2 level.

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 committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart, open, driven, accountable, and curious.

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