Junior Software Engineer- AI Services

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

At Smart Bear, we believe building great software starts with quality – and we’re helping our customers make that happen every day. Our solutions, featuring HaloAI , bring visibility and automation to software development, making it easier for teams to deliver high-quality software faster. Smart Bear is trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including innovators like Adobe, Jet Blue, Fed Ex, and Microsoft.

• Front-end: TS/JS + HTML/CSS
• Infra:
  Containers + AWS + Git Hub

Smart Bear is leading the charge to product ionize the use of Generative AI throughout the software development lifecycle in ways that go far beyond the chatbots proliferating in UIs everywhere. Beginning with AI integrations into existing products like Reflect and Swagger Hub , Smart Bear has shown its commitment to using AI to fundamentally drive workflows that users previously did themselves.

This approach delivers greater value for customers and increases Smart Bear’s growth velocity.

As a Junior Software Engineer you will work closely with an experienced team to design and build robust and reliable services to power our newest products, including Agentic AI products. Our new Agentic AI platform enables the configuration and execution of AI-native agents that operate on behalf of Smart Bear’s 32,000 customers in the areas of API design and management, end-to-end testing and runtime observability.

The team is 4+ engineers today and growing, and you will be expected to onboard quickly and begin shipping code on Day 1.

• Build and maintain back-end services to expose Generative AI capabilities to public-facing software products
• Rapidly validate the feasibility of new use cases from research ideas
• Maintain an appreciation for the end-user product experience and use this knowledge to inform system implementation trade-offs
• Perform code reviews across the front-to-back-end stack and ensure a standard of high engineering quality throughout the small, but growing, engineering team
• Deliver working code on-time and own the experience post-production
• Measure success and iterate on technical designs to improve the overall product experience

• 1+ years in software development in a production environment
• Strong understanding of HTTP, REST and the client/server architecture
• Demonstrated ability of completing software projects, individually and as part of a team
• Demonstrated ability of taking ambiguous or ill-defined requirements and problem statements, and rapidly converting them into working code, with quality
• Outstanding proactive communication skills in English

We value intelligence, humility and hard work – after all, we’re solving complex technical problems!

• This role is uniquely high-priority ; your contributions will be viewed by the CEO and CTO every week .
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person. We love celebrating our Smart Bears .
• We appreciate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

• Our main goal at Smart Bear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• Smart Bear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• Smart Bear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wrocl a w, Poland and Bangalore , India.
• We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, Intelly
  
  X Digital Innovator and Built In Best Places to Work .

Estimated Base Salary Range

$110,000 - $130,000 USD

Smart Bear 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.