Backend developer

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.

As a critical member of the team tasked with delivering on above promise, your day-to-day activities will include but may not be limited to the following:

Developing knowledge of major cloud and as-a-service technologies, and additional knowledge or experience in the areas of IT and/or cloud technology architecture (service management and/or resiliency is a plus)

Implementing modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient and reusable code and actively participating in code and design reviews

Identifying and addressing design, development and delivery performance bottlenecks

Leveraging monitoring tools to gain insight into performance or potential failure points and taking corrective action

Coordinating with support and development teams with which IBM Infrastructure Platform interacts to follow up on dependencies and issues and resolving them

Defining, implementing and executing unit tests (including automation)

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

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.

IBMs product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.
Required Professional and Technical Expertise
* 4-6 years experience in architecture and development of SaaS based security offerings, cognitive systems, netflow analytics and microservices.
* Experience with GO, Python, NodeJS, REST, JSON, Scripting skills
* 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 communication, analytical, and collaborative problem-solving skills.