Front-end Developer

Introduction
IBM Software Central is looking for a back-end JavaScript developer. We manage a complex incoming data stream of customer usage information and ensure that it is accurate fault-tolerant distributed to internal systems as needed and available for both the customer and IBMers to use.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The IBM Multicloud Platforms team is seeking innovative and enthusiastic software engineering professionals to join our team building the next generation multicloud marketplace platform. If you love working with cutting edge technologies dynamic and high performing teams then this is the right next step in advancing your career. You will be challenged to design and develop cloud applications and services leveraging a wide variety of open source and commercial technologies aimed at expanding the reach of the IBM Cloud. Our focus on delivering performance and predictability for our customers’ most demanding workloads at global scale and with leadership efficiency resiliency and security is the cornerstone of our development model and will result in maintaining IBM’s leadership position for years to come. “We build it. We ship it. We own it.”

As a Front-end Developer on the engineering team your responsibilities will include:

• Producing solutions that excel at user experience performance and reliability
• Complete coding testing defect fixes and production support using agile CI/CD methodologies
• Analyzing current code and existing design with the goal of enacting improvements geared towards making components and processes more efficient for the entire team
• Planning iterations and representing accomplishments at team scrums
• Presenting individual and team status during weekly playbacks or on management calls
• Managing risks and resolving issues that affect scope schedule and quality
• Effectively leveraging build deployment and monitoring/logging tools
• Collaborating with other development team members

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or related)
• Experience with cloud-native application development with JavaScript HTML CSS React
• Source control management experience with Git
• Demonstrated problem solving interpersonal and time management skills to handle complex situations effectively
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with stakeholders
• Self-motivated decision maker frequently taking initiative to improve code the base and share best practices

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with NodeJS as a server-side languages
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience with DevOps Technology like Jenkins/Travis CI
• Experience with agile methods iterative development and continuous integration
• Experience with Kubernetes Docker OpenShift and container development paradigms