Lead Software Engineer (Java, AWS)
Tricentis
Would you like to work on a product that increases software testing efficiency? Join our growing engineering team in Prague and help us bring qTest to the next level.
What is qTest?
It is a scalable test management and orchestration solution that supports manual, exploratory, and automated testing.
Why join our team?
· Innovation Culture: Contribute your ideas to enhance products like qTest and tackle evolving testing challenges.
· Global Exposure: Work with diverse clients worldwide, expanding your cultural understanding and professional experience.
· Career Growth: Benefit from training, certifications, and continuous learning to stay ahead in your field.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the teams from technical perspective to design and develop a fit for purpose solution
Conduct code reviews, mentor junior developers, and enforce coding standards and best practices.
Collaborate with Product Managers, DevOps, and QA teams to define technical requirements and delivery timelines.
Drive continuous improvement through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
Participate in system design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions.
Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure high system reliability.
Continuously educate yourself and others on latest technologies, patterns, and practices
Collaborate across teams to learn and grow together
Guide less experienced engineers in solving technical problems
Rapidly spike different solution approaches for difficult engineering problems
Assess complexity and estimate effort of new requirements
Break down complex requirements into meaningful increments
Requirements
Professional software development experience, with 3+ years in a lead or senior role.
Strong proficiency in Java, including frameworks like Spring Boot, Hibernate, and RESTful APIs.
Experience in test automation (e.g. with JUnit)
Experience with PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, query optimization, and stored procedures.
Experience with developing cloud services (ideally experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and microservice architecture)
Experience working in and succeeding as agile development team.
Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Github Actions or AWS CodePipeline.
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.
Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Be comfortable with change. Sometimes we will need to pivot and get back to the drawing board.
Demonstrate a proactive approach: you exhibit a willingness to embrace new technologies, libraries, and patterns swiftly, thereby enhancing productivity when tackling any given task
If you’ve got some of the following, even better:
· Experience with DevOps pipelines
· Experience with Cloud Operations (monitoring, observability, logging)
· Experience with modern frontend development frameworks (e.g. Vue, React, Angular)
Why join Tricentis.… BECAUSE CULTURE IS EVERYTHING
Growth & People-Centered Leadership
Fun Work Environment & Great Teams
Problem Solving, Innovation & Education
Tricentis Core Values:
Knowing what we need to achieve and how to achieve it is important. Tricentis' core values define our ways of working and the behaviors we model that create an enjoyable and successful Tricentis life.
Demonstrate Self-Awareness: Own your strengths and limitations.
Finish What We Start: Do what we say we are going to do.
Move Fast: Create momentum and efficiency.
Run Towards Change: Challenge the status quo.
Serve Our Customers & Communities: Create a positive experience with each interaction.
Solve Problems Together: We win or lose as one team.
Think Big & Believe: Set extraordinary goals and believe you can achieve them.
You can look forward to:
Flexible working schedule (no core hours)
Learning and career growth opportunities
25 days of paid time off
3 Sick Days
4 days of paid Volunteering Leave per year to get involved in your local community or in a cause that matters to you
Hybrid work environment with home-office allowance
Meal allowance
Pension Contribution
Life & Disability Insurance
Paid Sickness Leave
A team of passionate professionals who are experts in their fields
Events for employees to learn, celebrate, and socialize (training sessions, hackathons, parties, sports events, board game gatherings, BBQs) and much more
About Tricentis:
Tricentis is a software company officially founded in 2007, with primary focus on software quality assurance. Whether exploratory or automated, functional or performance, API or UI, as well as mainframes or custom applications or packaged applications, or cloud-native applications - our comprehensive suite of specialized Continuous Testing tools makes DevOps real by giving our clients the confidence to release on-demand.
Tricentis has more than 1500 employees working in across over 20 global offices in US, EMEA, APAC serving over 2100 customers, and currently expanding our R&D centers to two new locations in the Czech Republic – Prague and Brno - Hybrid office environment.
Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran.