Principle Software Engineer - Java

SmartBear; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Flexible work environment

Celebration of team accomplishments

Job summary

SmartBear is looking for a Principal Software Engineer – Java to provide technical leadership and implement scalable applications. You will act as a subject matter expert, guiding the team in complex technical challenges and enhancing overall software quality.

Ideal candidates will have over 12 years of experience in Java back-end development with a strong foundation in Spring technologies and AWS. You'll lead efforts to identify and implement process improvements that enhance business value.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software development, particularly in Java.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret business insights.
• In-depth knowledge of Spring Boot and Spring Framework.
• Experience with AWS technologies for cloud-based solutions.
• Expertise in application security practices and principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the development team in applying best practices.
• Design and implement high-quality scalable applications.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and maintain high code standards.
• Provide technical leadership in addressing business-wide problems.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects to optimize the code base.

Skills

Java development

Spring Framework

AWS technologies

Analytical skills

Application security

Messaging Queue

Code profiling

Team player

Tools

Hibernate

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

Job description

Principal Software Engineer – Java (Zephyr Enterprise)

• Lead and implement complex change, challenging business problems and build highly scalable applications
• Provide technical leadership guidance across the team and broader engineering organization.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert, driving technical excellence and informed decision-making.

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.

• Customize, 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.
• Providing technical thought leadership and delivering a significant impact to the business (product value) by addressing complex business problems that are business-wide and require depth and breadth of technology expertise.
• Conduct assessment and provide work effort estimations
• Should have experience with unit and integration testing. You believe in and encourage extensive test coverage and seek to automate testing whenever possible.
• Will be responsible for designing and conducting a high-quality code-review process and maintaining highly performant, testable code by following strong software design patterns.
• You will work with the Solution Architect, Engineering Manager and other senior developers to optimize, update, and maintain the current code base while adding to it.
• You are very well acquainted with best practices around project deployment and educate the team about the same.
• Provide guidance and mentor developer on coding and technical aspects
• You will be helping the Engineering Manager in the hiring process by ensuring that we select the right team members.
• You will report to the Engineering Manager managing the team.

Qualifications

Act as a subject matter expert on all areas of back end Java 8 and 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.
• 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.
• Expertise on application security including authentication, authorization, encryption and security testing.
• Experience with Messaging Queue preferably RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis.
• Should enjoy breaking down complex problems into small tasks and PRs to deliver value safely and incrementally.
• Should consider testing, monitoring, and observability first-order priorities. Should own the code flow until the code runs in production and returns the expected results and metrics.
• Should have very strong experience in profiling and impact analysis for code being written.
• Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Should have very strong experience in the best practices around developer tooling and workflows.

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.