Senior Software Developer

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.

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.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We're looking for a Software Developer to join our platform team.
Specific responsibilities will include:

• Work as part of an agile team, accurately estimating and then delivering complex features.
• Develop microservice-based application components.
• Work extensively with Java and cloud native tools, applying principles of object-oriented design.

• Strong Java development and debugging skills
• Test driven development, Design and develop automated tests to prevent regressions
• Experience with developing complex multi-threaded applications
• Self-directed, eager to learn with a desire to work in a fast paced development environment

• Build SaaS solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for end-to-end project design and development.
• Build and maintain REST API endpoints.
• Provide thorough, professional documentation of new features and software as it is developed.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions and code review in collaboration with other teams.
• Consult with product management team about user needs and software requirements.
• Participate in customer calls and provide assistance to support team to help address technical issues.
• Communication, organization, critical, analytical thinking and research skills are critical in this role.

The tech stack includes: Java, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Consul, Kafka, Protobuf/gRPC, REST, React, Redshift and ThoughtSpot.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience
• Thorough understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design, Databases, Security principles, including authentication, authorization, certificates, RBAC, etc.
• Demonstrated strong Java development and debugging skills.
• Demonstrated academic coursework or internship experience:
  - in design and developing software,
  - in architecture and modeling of components,
  - in web-based applications.
• Coursework, other academic project or internship experience with Java, algorithms, SQL Databases, object-oriented design, web application development, distributed systems and micro services, principles of cloud computing, containers and kubernetes, linux operating system.
• Background with web application stack and common design patterns in web framework
• Must have strong communication and team working skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience on working in kubernetes based application stack - microservices
  Experience in go and python
• Understanding the CI-CD pipeline and how maven + git work
• Experience with Linux systems