Principal Software Engineer

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. 

Principal Software Engineer

Collaborator

• Full-stack development and architecture design of a well-established product
• Help lead an international development team embark on a large modernization effort
• Tech Stack: Java J2EE, GWT, React.js

Product intro

Collaborator provides teams customizable peer review capabilities across code, documents, artifacts, and models. With strong reporting capabilities, Collaborator enables teams to meet strict audit and compliance requirements. It maintains integrations with over two dozen systems, including code repositories, ticketing systems, document editors, and modeling software.

Go to our product page to learn more about Collaborator. You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊

About the role

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be working on an international team to modernize the Collaborator tech stack, starting with a full rewrite of the front-end. You will be responsible for designing scalable, maintainable solutions, and mentor a team of junior and career developers to iteratively deliver value.

• Lead design, development, and integration efforts
• Participate in technical discussions and requirement analysis with internal partners to drive alignment with product needs
• Drive high engineering standards, engaging in peer design and code reviews, refining sessions, etc.
• Build well designed, clean applications with solid technical foundations
• Make sure test coverage and code quality are in line with established guidelines
• Collaborate with teams of developers, testers, UX designers, product managers geographically spread across our different locations
• Working on resolving technical issues of customers

We are looking for you if you have:

• 7+ years of Java and JavaScript full-stack experience
• Deep experience building React.js applications
• Knowledge of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) helpful, but not required
• Solid understanding of and experience with REST and JSON-based APIs
• Knowledge of design patterns and performance best practices
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable, testable code

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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