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.
Senior Software Engineer – Java
- Solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications.
- Design, document and implement solutions in Java 8 and 17.
- Build and deploy services based on the AWS platform.
- Work with a high-performance team, working with continuous delivery and heavy test automation
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About the role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be an integral part of this transformation. You will be solving challenging business problems and building highly scalable and available applications that provide an excellent user experience. Reporting to the Engineer Manager, you will be required to develop solutions using available tools and technologies and assist the engineering team in problem resolution by hands-on participation, effectively communicating status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
- Tackle interesting challenges such as working with scalable solutions, handling large amounts of data, and working with a fully automated pipeline for continuous integration and deployment.
- Work with several technologies and languages – Java, Spring, Terraform, Docker, AWS (RDS Aurora, S3, ECS and more).
- Work within a collaborative high-performance team of developers, testers (for test automation), support engineers and more, geographically spread across our different locations – UK, Poland, France, India and Brazil.
- Implement new functionality in close cooperation with the team and users.
- Engage in peer design and code reviews.
- Maintain test coverage
We are looking for someone who can design, document, and implement new systems, as well as enhancements and modifications to existing software with code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java best practices.
- Have 5+ years of experience with hands-on experience working in Java 8 platform or higher and hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field required.
- Experience with Docker and containerization
- Experience with the AWS platform, particularly with DynamoDB, ECS, S3, Lambda and RDS Aurora.
- Knowledge of design patterns and best practices.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable code.
- Solid knowledge of software testing using different approaches or tools such as BDD, TDD, unit testing, integration testing and performance testing.
- Exposure to microservices architecture.
- Experience in modern version control systems such as Git.
- Experience designing and consuming web services (REST).
- Experience with RDBMS (E.g. MySQL) - schema / query design & implementation.
- Experience with Agile software development.
Desirable:
- Experience with microservices.
- Experience to Terraform.
- Exposure to NoSQL databases
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 SmartBear; 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, Ahmedabad and Bangalore India.
- We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and Built-in 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.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Java 8 or higher
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience with Docker and containerization
- Experience with AWS, particularly DynamoDB, ECS, S3, Lambda, and RDS Aurora
- Knowledge of design patterns and software development best practices
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and maintainable code
- Knowledge of software testing, including BDD, TDD, unit, integration, and performance testing
- Exposure to microservices architecture
- Experience with modern version control systems such as Git
- Experience designing and consuming REST web services
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, including schema and query design
- Experience with Agile software development
- Experience with Terraform
- Exposure to NoSQL databases
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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Hybrid Workspace
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.




