Backend Engineer- Reflect

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, BugSnag Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, 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.

Back-end Engineer – Reflect

• Continue to build out Reflect’s real-time back-end infrastructure, which powers thousands of live browser sessions daily as part of a market-leading end-to-end test automation platform.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and rapidly convert requirements into working code while maintaining existing features and services.
• Back-end: Scala + Java, DB: S3 + PostgreSQL, Infra: AWS, Docker, Linux

Product intro

Reflect is a no-code, cloud-based platform that translates manual end-to-end web tests into automated tests using Generative AI. Supporting both web and native mobile apps, it is the fastest tool for creating tests and the easiest way to maintain them. Reflect is used by thousands of companies to increase their development velocity and confidence during deployments.

Go to our product page if you want to know more about Reflect Automated Testing.

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

About the role

As a Back-end Engineer you will work closely with a growing team of back-end and front-end engineers to continue building our end-to-end automation platform. Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Build and manage our live recorder and automated test runner, for both web and mobile tests
• Design and develop new REST APIs for communicating with test runners and other infrastructure
• Prototype and build new features for managing cloud browsers, including improvements to Reflect AI, a generative AI feature that converts test plans to automated test scripts
• Manage a dynamically-scaled infrastructure of containers for services and tasks
• Deliver working code on-time with clear documentation or other explanation
• Measure success and iterate on technical designs to improve outcomes for all stakeholders

We are looking for you if you have:

• 3+ years in software development in a production environment
• Advanced programming skills in one or more of: Scala, Java, C/C++, Go, TypeScript
• Strong understanding of HTTP, REST and the client/server architecture
• Demonstrated ability of completing software projects, individually and as part of a team
• Demonstrated ability of taking ambiguous or ill-defined requirements and problem statements, and rapidly converting them into working code, with quality
• Strong communication skills and English on at least a B2 level

We value intelligence, humility and hard work – after all, we’re solving complex technical problems!

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