SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.
SmartBear is trusted by developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s open source tools are downloaded more than 100 million times a month and have earned over 30,000 GitHub stars from the developer community. With its best-loved brands, including Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at www.smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit.
At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.
Junior Backend Engineer - Swagger Portal
- Work within a collaborative team of developers, testers, UX designers to implement new functionalities
- Gaining exposure to cutting-edge development technology.
- Tech stack: Java, REST APIs, RDBMS (e.g. Postgres), NoSQL
Product intro:
Swagger sets the standard for API design, testing, and governance in the age of AI. It automates and centralizes visibility, governance, and discoverability, while AI-assisted building, testing, and documentation help teams deliver faster, operate predictably, and scale with confidence.
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About the role:
As a Junior Backend Engineer you will be working on an international team to build new features and capabilities of the world’s best solution for API development, focused primarily on Portal, Catalog and Studio. You can look forward to working with our best and brightest engineers, product managers, and UX folks.
- 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.
- Create and maintain technical and support documentation.
- Maintain test coverage.
We are looking for you if you have:
- 1-2+ years of Java development experience (Java 21+ and Spring Boot 3+).
- Understanding of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable code.
- Experience or knowledge of designing and consuming web services (REST APIs) and RDBMS (e.g. Postgres).
- Knowledge of design patterns and performance best practices.
- Experience with AI for accelerating development activities.
- BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related domains
- 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 SD Times, DeveloperWeek's Devies Award, the AI Breakthrough Award, and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.
SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart, open, driven, accountable, and curious.
Skills Required
- 1-2+ years of Java development experience
- Java 21+ and Spring Boot 3+ experience
- Understanding of object-oriented programming and maintainable code
- Experience or knowledge designing and consuming REST APIs
- Experience or knowledge with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL
- Knowledge of design patterns and performance best practices
- Experience with AI for accelerating development activities
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- English proficiency at least B2 level
SmartBear Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health support, with some plans starting coverage on day one. Company materials and third‑party profiles consistently list strong health coverage as a core offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes open/unlimited PTO in many roles, paid holidays and sick time, Summer Fridays early closes, volunteer “give back” days, and birthday PTO. This breadth is highlighted across employer pages and listings as a standout part of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness stipends or fitness reimbursements, commuter support, pet insurance, catered meals/snacks, ERGs, and mental‑health resources are prominently featured. These everyday perks and wellbeing programs add tangible value beyond core insurance.
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What We Do
SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended – with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams. SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear’s best-loved brands include Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place.
Why Work With Us
At SmartBear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
SmartBear supports flexible work arrangements, balancing home and work life uniquely for each employee. We offer In-Office, Hybrid, and Fully Remote options, recognizing the value of both in-person collaboration and personal flexibility for our team.
