Software Engineer Front End

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 32000 organizations including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe JetBlue and Microsoft. SmartBears 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 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.

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 SmartBears 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 aboutSmartBear Reflect.

About the Role:

As aSoftware 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 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.
• Weve 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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