Technical Lead Software Engineer (Principle Engineer)ZE
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SmartBear
Job Description
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. 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.
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.
Product intro
Zephyr Enterprise is undergoing a transformation to better align our products to the end users’ requirements while maintaining our market leading position and strong brand reputation across the Test Management Vertical.
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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.
- Customise, 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 ma
