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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 - Java 

Zephyr Enterprise  

• Lead and implement complex change
• Provide technical though leadership
• Be the subject matter expert for the team

Product intro

Zephyr Enterprise is undergoing a transformation to better align our products to the end users’ requirements while maintaining our market leading position and strong brand reputation across the Test Management Vertical. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be integral part of this transformation and will be solving challenging business problems and build highly scalable and available applications that provide an excellent user experience.

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About the role

As the Principal Software Engineer, you will be the technical liaison for the team and guide them in all technical aspects of product development. Provide technical thought leadership and deliver significant impact to the business product value, by addressing complex business wide problems using your technology expertise. You will also be responsible for setting the strategic direction by identifying technology and process changes that deliver long term benefits and drive activity to implement changes across the product. You should also be able to successfully lead and implement complex change, particularly relating to software platforms and customer solutions, applying effective stakeholder management skill.

• Customise, enhance, troubleshoot and document components developed per requirements and design. Conduct assessments and provide work effort estimations to senior leadership.
• Review approaches and help find optimal solutions to the problems, provide high quality code reviews and maintain highly performant and testable code by following strong design patterns. Alongside mentoring and coaching developers in the team.
• Work with the Solution Architects and Engineering Manager to optimize update and maintain current code base whilst adding to it.

We are looking for someone who can act as a subject matter expert on all areas of back end Java 8 or higher development. You should have 12+ years of experience as an individual contributor and have excellent research skills to frame technical solutions for complex business problems. Application security exposure, including authentication, authorization, encryption and security testing. Also be able to show a strong track record of using strong analytical skills and intuition to analyse data and interpret business insights and trends.

• In-depth knowledge on Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Hibernate. Java Reflection, IOC, AOP, and OOP / OOD.
• Should have strong experience working with AWS technologies like Lambda functions, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB. RDBMS (MSSQL, MySQL, or PostgreSQL) and NoSQL DB.
• Passionate about Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and solving problems in Production. Elasticsearch server cluster optimization or Experience with Atlassian suite of Products and the related ecosystem of Plugins would be advantageous.

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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