Software Engineer - Front End

About the role

As a Software 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 Vue.js/Vue 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,

Additional Information

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. 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 SmartBear's 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 about SmartBear Reflect .

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