Junior Backend Engineer - Swagger Portal

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.

Go to our product page if you want to know more about Swagger
You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊

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.