Back-End Developer

Introduction
IBM recently announced that it acquired Polar Security a DSPM pioneer. Polar’s agentless solution automatically finds unknown and sensitive data across the cloud including structured and unstructured assets SaaS apps and within cloud service providers such as AWS. Once discovered Polar classifies the data maps the potential and actual flow of that data and identifies vulnerabilities such as misconfigurations over-entitlements and behavior that violates policy or regulations. IBM intends to integrate Polar’s DSPM technology into IBM Security’s Guardium family of data security products.

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.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Your main duties will include designing and implementing new features optimizing and maintaining existing code and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with other developers designers and product managers to ensure the software meets user needs.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify potential automation opportunities and define project requirements.
• You will take part in the architecture design and implementation
• Write clean concise code that is stable extensible and unit-tested appropriately
• Diagnose complex issues evaluate recommend and execute the best solution
• Test software to ensure proper and efficient execution and adherence to business and technical requirements
• Write code that meets the production requirements and design specifications and anticipate potential errors/issues

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• You’ll have a strong background in software development with expertise in programming languages such as Java Python or C++.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and NoSQL databases such as Cloudant would also be beneficial.
• Experience with Dockers Kubernetes and OpenShift technologies
• Experience developing SaaS platforms
• Back-end development experience preferable in NodeJS and Typescript
• Experience working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools such as Jenkins Git
• Knowledge of Cyber Security domain – Advantage
• You should be a self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills able to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) or relevant background- Advantage