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 programming and peer design. Maintain test coverage.

We are looking for you if you have:

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

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.