Lead Full-Stack Engineer – Platform Services

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.  

Lead Full-Stack Engineer – Platform Services 

• Lead and Innovate: Drive the future of the SmartBear Platform Services with your visionary leadership. Design and build scalable, state-of-the-art services that elevate our entire product suite. 
• Collaborate and Integrate: Team up with brilliant engineers and cross-functional teams to create seamless, integrated systems, delivering an outstanding experience for our customers. 
• Drive Excellence: Champion high engineering standards and code quality. Engage in dynamic technical discussions, peer reviews, and collaborative sessions to ensure our solutions are top-notch. 

Are you an expert in building scalable Platform solutions and looking to work on the project which impacts multiple products. Then this is the right role for you. SmartBear is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer who is ready to make an impact! In this unique role, you will be working with internal teams around the globe to build the next generation of interconnected SmartBear applications and services. You can look forward to working with our best and brightest engineers, product managers, and UX folks to deliver meaningful centralized "Platform Services” that are consumed by multiple product development teams. 

Go to our page if you want to know more about us https://smartbear.com/ 

About the role 

As a Lead Full-Stack Engineer you will:  

• Lead the development and architecture of the SmartBear Platform from a functional and operational point of view 
• Work with a team of talented Engineers to design and implement scalable services that will be used for all our products 
• Provide technical leadership for the front-end and back-end engineering stack by shaping the needs of all SmartBear products 
• Contribute to and lead when required technical discussions and requirements analysis with cross-product and internal partners to drive alignment to cover all needs 
• Collaborate closely with other teams to integrate our systems and services with theirs, and to ensure a seamless experience for our joint customers. 
• Drive high engineering standards engaging in peer design and code reviews, grooming sessions, etc. 
• Make sure code quality is in line with established guidelines 
• Collaborate with teams of developers, testers, UX designers, product managers geographically spread across our different locations 

We are looking for you if you have:  

• 10+ years of experience in Full-stack development, with a strong background in Typescript, Java, Node.js and React. 
• Experience in high-volume SaaS (Software as a Service) applications working in cloud environment (we are AWS focused) 
• Experience working with an AWS serverless/lambda microservice architecture 
• Solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming concepts and writing maintainable code 
• Experience in building micro-service architectures deployed in a containerized environment using Docker/Kubernetes 
• Experience building solutions on top of event streaming systems like Kafka, Active MQ, EventBridge, etc. (Event Driven Architecture). 
• Experience with high load RDBMS (e.g., Postgres) – schema/query design & implementation 
• Experience with NoSQL Databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB) 
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines driving automation and quality 
• Proficient in synchronous and asynchronous API design 
• Knowledgeable in observability tools and frameworks  
• Preferably knowing product security engineering and OWASP 
• English written and verbal communication skills 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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