Back End Engineer- SwaggerHub Explore

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, 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 – SwaggerHub Explore

• You will help develop of one of the most perspective and newest SmartBear product.
• Gaining exposure to cutting-edge development technology.
• Tech stack: Java 17/SpringBoot, CI/CD Pipeline, Kubernetes/Docker, Kafka, gRPC, GraphQL, SOAP

Product intro

SwaggerHub Explore is the newest tool in SwaggerHub family, which will form a part of a larger API Platform strategy. Explore allows users to interact with REST APIs and Kafka services (gRPC, GraphQL and others in the future). With our application, user can:

• Explore APIs / web services and work with endpoints;
• Quickly review the return values from API calls;
• Experiment with different parameters;
• Save Endpoints into an API bucket for easy access;
• See the raw byte stream returned by a call;
• Publish and subscribe with Kafka.

Go to https://swagger.io/tools/swaggerhub-explore/ to learn more.

Try it for free! 😊

About the role:

As a Back End Engineer you will work on a completely new product in an international team, the first of its kind, to be used by developers around the world exploring REST, Kafka, gRPC, GraphQL and more.

As a part of a collaborative team, you will develop a set of Java micro services for the underlying SPA application, write testable clean code and work with modern agile development.

• Implementing new functionality in close cooperation with stakeholders.
• Build well designed, clean applications with solid technical foundations.
• Participate in design and code reviews, develop, debug, or modify source code and unit tests.
• Have a real impact on how we work in the team and brainstorm about the future of the product to be used by engineers around the world.
• Work within a collaborative team of developers, testers, UX designers, and more, geographically spread across our different locations.
• Engage in peer design and code reviews.

We are looking for you if you have:

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering in Java – we use Java 17.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable code with SOLID principles.
• Knowledge of Spring Boot, WebSockets (with STOMP), Kubernetes (Rancher 2), Docker.
• Deep insight into relational databases like PostgreSQL.
• Software engineering knowledge (problem solving, algorithms) and modern software engineering practices (writing tests, clean code etc)
• 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 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.

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