Java Backend Engineer

Introduction
At IBM work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM is looking for skilled back-end developers with experience in Java and related technologies to join our existing development team. The candidate should be comfortable working independently take ownership of assigned tasks should be open to learn new technologies have insatiable curiosity and an analytical mindset. The ideal person should be able to leverage new technology to provide our customers with an excellent experience while you are working on a diverse team of highly qualified and motivated individuals. This involves solutions capable of processing and analyzing millions of spans traces metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base.

Responsibilities

• Write code and tests build prototypes resolve issues and profile and analyze bottlenecks
• Design robust modules to support multiple client interfaces
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud
• The management of the entire software development process from conception to deployment.
• Updating and maintaining the software after deployment.
• Controlling the whole life cycle of the software and application development process.
• Overseeing and directing the evaluation creation and implementation of software.
• Directing the automated testing and giving management input as the project is being developed.
• Modifying existing programs and testing the modifications.
• Troubleshooting and fixing bugs and other coding issues.
• Good knowledge about reactive systems based on Java specifically RX Reactor Reactive-Streams
• Understanding of and experience with message-processing based on Apache Kafka
• Good code-writing discipline”

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ Years of Experience with java(jdk1.8 and above) and related technologies
• Capable of writing optimal algorithms
• Experience with One or more databases
• Basic awareness of UI frameworks(javascript and React)
• Experience working in agile software environments
• Experience with Git CI/CD Concourse Tekton Jira Kanban.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving thinking
• This candidate should be comfortable working independently take ownership of assigned tasks should be open to learn new technologies have insatiable curiosity and an analytical mindset. “

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience working in cloud service providers like IBM Cloud AWS Google Azure.
• Knowledge about database systems like ElasticSearch Cassandra and Clickhouse
• General experience of APM tools
• Fluent in written and spoken English”