Software Engineer - Front End

Software Engineer – Front End

• Solve challenging business problems and build highly scalable frontend applications
• Design, document and implement new systems in Vue 3, TypeScript, and browser extension technologies
• Develop intuitive and responsive product experiences and browser extension workflows integrating with REST APIs and browser APIs

Product intro:
Reflect is SmartBear's AI-powered, no-code test automation platform for creating, maintaining, and running tests across web, API, and mobile applications. Reflect helps teams turn plain-English steps and recorded browser interactions into automated tests, analyze execution results, and connect automation with test management workflows. The frontend work spans the customer-facing Reflect web application and the browser instrumentation used to record user actions, capture page context, and support reliable execution.

Go to our product page if you want to know more about SmartBear Reflect.

About the Role:

As a Software Engineer (Frontend), you will play a key role in developing high-performance, responsive, and secure product experiences using Vue 3, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frontend tooling. This frontend role covers both the Reflect web application and the browser instrumentation code used for recording, replay, observability, and automation workflows.

You will build reusable UI components, integrate with REST and WebSocket APIs, improve test authoring and run analysis experiences, and contribute to browser automation surfaces across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. You will collaborate with product, design, QA, backend, and automation engineers in an agile environment while contributing to implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Develop scalable, responsive, and maintainable frontend applications using Vue 3, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Design and implement reusable UI components, product workflows, and stateful experiences using Vue Router and Pinia/Vuex
• Integrate frontend features with REST, JSON, and WebSocket APIs in collaboration with backend services
• Contribute to browser extension/instrumentation in TypeScript, including DOM event capture, selectors, iframes, shadow DOM, file uploads, network requests, clipboard handling, and browser APIs
• Analyze and resolve UI bugs, performance bottlenecks, asynchronous timing issues, and cross-browser compatibility problems
• Write and maintain focused tests using Jest, Vue Test Utils, jsdom, Playwright, Puppeteer, and related frontend testing tools
• Use modern frontend build and development tools such as Webpack, npm, TypeScript configuration, ESLint, Prettier, and Storybook
• Follow Agile development practices, participate in sprint ceremonies, code reviews, and continuous improvement discussions

Experience and Skills Required:

• 4-6 years of hands-on experience in frontend development, preferably building SaaS or complex product applications
• Strong understanding of TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, browser rendering behavior, and responsive UI development
• Hands-on experience with Vue.js/Vue 3 or a similar component-based framework, Vue 3 experience is preferred
• Familiarity with frontend state management and routing patterns such as Pinia, Vuex, and Vue Router
• API-driven development experience working with REST APIs, JSON payloads, WebSocket updates, and asynchronous data flows
• Experience with frontend build tooling such as Webpack, npm, TypeScript, Babel, and related configuration
• Familiarity with testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Vue Test Utils, jsdom, Playwright, or Puppeteer
• Exposure to browser extension development, browser APIs, DOM instrumentation, or cross-browser debugging is strongly preferred
• Understanding of accessibility, security, performance, and cross-browser compatibility considerations in frontend applications
• Experience with version control and collaborative development workflows using GitHub or GitLab

Personal Attributes:

• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to write clean, modular, testable, and maintainable code
• Ownership mindset with attention to detail and willingness to debug complex product behavior
• Collaborative approach and comfort working with cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams
• Curiosity for testing, browser automation, user experience, and modern frontend technologies

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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