Principal Software Engineer - Java
Zephyr Enterprise

• Lead and implement complex change, challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications
• Provide technical leadership guidance across the team and broader engineering organization.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert, driving technical excellence and informed decision-making.

Product intro
Zephyr Enterprise is undergoing a transformation 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. 

Go to our product page if you want to know more about Zephyr Test Management Products | SmartBear.

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

About the role
As the Principal Software Engineer, you will be the technical liaison for the team and guide them in all technical aspects of product development. Provide technical thought leadership and deliver significant impact to the business product value, by addressing complex business wide problems using your technology expertise. You will also be responsible for setting the strategic direction by identifying technology and process changes that deliver long term benefits and drive activity to implement changes across the product. You should also be able to successfully lead and implement complex change, particularly relating to software platforms and customer solutions, applying effective stakeholder management skill.

• Customise, enhance, troubleshoot and document components developed per requirements and design. Conduct assessments and provide work effort estimations to senior leadership.
• Review approaches and help find optimal solutions to the problems, provide high quality code reviews and maintain highly performant and testable code by following strong design patterns alongside mentoring and coaching developers in the team.
• Work with the Solution Architects and Engineering Manager to optimize update and maintain current code base whilst adding to it.
• Providing technical thought leadership and delivering a significant impact to the business (product value) by addressing complex business problems that are business-wide and require depth and breadth of technology expertise.
• Conduct assessment and provide work effort estimations
• Should have experience with unit and integration testing. You believe in and encourage extensive test coverage and seek to automate testing whenever possible.
• Will be responsible for designing and conducting a high-quality code-review process and maintaining highly performant, testable code by following strong software design patterns.
• You will work with the Solution Architect, Engineering Manager and other senior developers to optimize, update, and maintain the current code base while adding to it.
• You are very well acquainted with best practices around project deployment and educate the team about the same.
• Provide guidance and mentor developer on coding and technical aspects
• You will be helping the Engineering Manager in the hiring process by making sure that we are able to select the right team members.
• You will report to the Engineering Manager managing the team.

We are looking for someone who can act as a subject matter expert on all areas of back end Java 8 and higher development.

• You should have 12+ years of experience as an individual contributor and have excellent research skills to frame technical solutions for complex business problems.
• Also be able to show a strong track record of using strong analytical skills and intuition to analyse data and interpret business insights and trends.
• In-depth knowledge on Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Hibernate. Java Reflection, IOC, AOP, and OOP / OOD.
• Should have strong experience working with AWS technologies like Lambda functions, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB. RDBMS (MSSQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL) and NoSQL DB.
• Passionate about Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and solving problems in Production. Elasticsearch server cluster optimization or Experience with Atlassian suite of Products and the related ecosystem of Plugins would be advantageous.

• Expertise on application security including authentication, authorization, encryption and security testing.
• Experience with Messaging Queue preferably RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis.
• Should enjoy breaking down complex problems into small tasks and PRs to deliver value safely and incrementally. 
• Should consider testing, monitoring, and observability first-order priorities. Should own the code flow until the code runs in production and returns the results and metrics that are expected
• Should have very strong experience in profiling and impact analysis for code being written
• Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Should have very strong experience in the best practices around developer tooling and workflows. 

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.

Junior Software Engineer – Zephyr Enterprise

• Solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications
• Design, document and implement new systems
• Tech stack: Java 8, API driven development, remote data via SOAP, REST and JSON

Product intro:

Zephyr Enterprise is a robust test management solution managed independently outside the Atlassian ecosystem – offering real-time Jira integration.

Zephyr Enterprise meets the most demanding requirements around privacy and security (with enterprise-grade LDAP, SSO, Encryption in Transit and at Rest), provides enterprise-grade test planning, and offers support for multiple test automation workflows and frameworks, making it the perfect tool for consolidating teams that use disparate, homegrown automation solutions.

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

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

About the role:

As an Junior Software Engineer - Java, 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 communicating 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 the 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 the 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 2-4 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 JIRA tool.
• Good Understanding of OOAD, Spring Framework, and the Microservices-based architecture.
• Unit Testing (JUnit preferred)/ TDD - Scripting & Automated Testing, Continuous Integration and Deployment (Jenkins).
• Experience with Relational or NoSQL databases, level design, and core Java patterns. Docker, Unix commands, and shell scripts.
• Experience with AWS stack, RDS, S3, Elastic cache, SSDLC, Agile methodologies.
• Experience with Atlassian suite of Products and the related ecosystem of Plugins
• Experience with Messaging Queue preferably RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis.
• Experience with React, JavaScript 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 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, Ahmedabad 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 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.

• Solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications
• Design, document and implement new systems in Java 17
• Build a Distributed System and microservices, specifically with HTTP, REST, JSON and XML, Messaging Queue, etc.
• The successful candidate will work from our Bangalore office in hybrid model

• 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.

• API-driven development - Experience working with remote data via SOAP, REST, and JSON, and delivering high-value projects in the Agile (Scrum) methodology, preferably using JIRA.
• 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.