Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

IBM Cloud Core Platform Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading-edge, highly available, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud. We're looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join us. This technical role is focused on designing, developing and deploying cloud security services, automating wide ranges of tasks, problem-solving, interfacing with other teams, offering managers, and customers to solve complex problems.

You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven to create world-class development and deployment environments, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team, you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Platform Services ecosystem

• Developing highly available, distributed cloud services, with emphasis on security, scalability and user experience using technologies like Java, Node.js, Golang, Cloudant, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio and more.

• Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and DevSecOps workflows

• Documenting and sharing your experience with team members, mentoring others

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering or equivalent with minimum of 8 years of experience in Software Development At least 3 years' experience working in Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methodologies

• At least 6 years of hands-on development experience building applications with one or more of the following: Java, Spring, Liberty, Node.js, Express.js, Golang, NoSQL DB, Redis, distributed caches, containers etc.

• At least 3 years of experience in UI development in React.js, Redux, Angular and JavaScript

• At least 3 years of experience building and operating highly secured, distributed cloud services with one or more of the following: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, Docker, container orchestration, performance testing, DevOps etc.

• At least 3 years of experience in web technologies: HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, Ajax, JavaScript etc.

• Solid understanding of the micro-service architecture and modern cloud programming practices. Strong ability to design a clean, developer-friendly API.

• Passionate about constant, continuous learning and applying new technologies as well as mentoring others.

• Keen troubleshooting skills and strong verbal/written communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in using messaging brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.

• Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.)

• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.

• Experience and working knowledge of version Control systems like Github and build tools like Maven/Gradle

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly

• Experience in working on a SaaS application with high industry standard CI/CD, and development cycle processes

• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables

• UI test automation skills - Selenium and/or Puppeteer

• Beyond the requirements, candidates should be passionate about in the role:

• Continuous learning and ability to adapt to change

• Working across global teams and collaborating across teams and organization boundaries

• Finding innovative ways to solve complex problems with cutting edge technologies.

About Business UnitIBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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