Platform SW Developer – Lead Backend Development

Responsibilities

Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern software engineering practices? Are you excited to use these practices to deliver and manage mission critical services at scale? Are you a quick thinker? If so, please read on.

Do you love to solve business problems with systems and integrations? Do you want every day to be a bit different and allow you to work with individuals across the spectrum of the organization? Then you just may be a fit for this critical software developer role.

IBM is trailblazing new solutions and services that span key technologies within the IBM Infrastructure portfolio. We are looking for experienced candidates focused on back-end development. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring a deep level of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern as-a-service and cloud capabilities.

In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with cloud platform integration, orchestration & provisioning, security and DevOps.

As an IBM software developer, you are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, to implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis and to partner with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome blockers.



Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

·A minimum of 12 years of experience in software development

·Experience with Node JS / GO, Python, REST, JSON

·Experience with Cloudant or NoSQL database, Jenkins

·Experience with agile software development, continuous integration and continuous delivery

·Experience in working with large teams distributed across geo locations

·Strong debug skills, effective verbal and written communication skills, team oriented

Minimum 5 years of experience in lead role



Preferred technical and professional experience

·Knowledge of the IBM Cloud platforms or another as-a-service platform and its architecture

·Experience working in a startup / scale-up business environment

·Proficient with one or more project management tools – Jira, Git, Aha, etc