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Developers' Academy – Associate Software Engineer Intern
Are you interested in starting your career as a Software Engineer? SmartBear is seeking Developers with a passion for learning new technologies and best practices.
- Learn new technologies and best practices in an innovative and creative culture.
- Organized learning path and insight into how IT companies operate.
- The successful candidate will work from our Bangalore office.
The mission of SmartBear’s Developer Academy training program is to bring early-career technical talent into the SmartBear Engineering organization. SmartBear is committed to enhancing the lives of its employees by providing a best-in-class software development training program that allows for true career progression in Software Development.
About the role:
As a Software Engineering Trainee, you will learn valuable skills that will prepare you for the role of Associate Software Engineer at SmartBear. In the Associate Software Engineering role, you will add new features, or make general improvements to an existing product.
In your day-to-day, you will likely spend your time writing code, collaborating with team members, and planning future projects. Most software engineers work on a team with other developers, automation engineers, product designers, and product managers. You will get to interact with all of them.
You will get working knowledge of Agile Methodology within a Scrum framework. This is a popular way of organizing teamwork for many software companies. Within a Scrum framework, software engineers are part of a development team that works on parts of a large project in short sprints – often about two weeks.
As part of the team, you will get immense satisfaction in inventing something from the ground up. Software engineers at SmartBear often find themselves innovating and charting unknown territory.
This is the job for which SmartBear’s Developer Academy program prepares you.
What will you learn?
- Best methods to effectively communicate with team and stakeholders
- Relationship-building within the team, and collaboration
- The decision-making framework within the team
- Exercising judgment within defined tasks to determine appropriate action
- New functional areas, applications, or products
- Supporting an innovative/creative culture
- Building maintainable, scalable, and performant code
- Testing your code early in the development lifecycle
- Performing peer code reviews which includes giving and receiving feedback on code
- Navigating an organized learning path to improve your skillset
- Hands-on experience in software development within a supportive team environment
- Mentorship from experienced professionals in the field.
Technologies you will have a chance to work with:
- Java, JavaScript, SQL, no SQL, Cloud, Microservices, React, Angular
- Windows, Linux, macOS
- Docker, Kubernetes, VMware
- APIs
Technologies you may have a chance to work with:
- Java Swing
- Guide
- Groovy scripts
- Ruby
Areas you will work on:
SmartBear has a wide portfolio of products that use state-of-the-art technologies. You will get to be part of one of our product groups focusing on API, Test Management, Functional Testing, or Observability.
As a person, we would love it if you:
- Have demonstrable skill with at least one programming language (Java, Java Script, React, Angular a plus)
- Having a working knowledge of object-oriented programming and writing maintainable code
- Know about functional and non-functional testing best practices
- Are curious about other people’s opinions and perspectives, are happy to be part of a creative team, and are comfortable bouncing ideas back and forth
- Are open to giving and receiving feedback openly in whatever format works best for you
- Are compassionate towards yourself and your colleagues
- Are looking to continuously improve the way teams work together
- Are curious about acquiring new knowledge, learning new frameworks and tools
- Are a proficient communicator in English, both orally and in writing
- Are a recipient of a BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related domains
- Are ready for adventure 😊
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 the 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.
