Senior 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
You are a senior software engineer who strives for excellence in the user’s experience as well as in your technical solutions. You have a curious mind and a passion for continuous improvement. You thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment.

We are a high-performing cross-functional team of developers product managers and designers. We are passionate about delivering elegant solutions to complex business problems and we have a proven track record of delivering successful features and functionality that delight our customers.

Responsibilities:

You will work with your scrum team to deliver impactful and valuable features operating on a bi-weekly sprint cadence. You will personally own end-to-end features from concept to design to production and partner with product managers user experience designers and other engineers to achieve high-quality solutions. In addition be part of the on-call rotation to help mitigate and solve any issues that may arise from the day-to-day operations of running a service.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience delivering enterprise level software preferably in Golang Java or C# other languages also considered.
• Proficiency with object-oriented design data structures algorithms and asynchronous architectural design.
• Professional experience building REST APIs.
• Professional experience with relational databases schema design and SQL.
• Experience with database implementations (query optimization index generation caching).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and related technologies (helm Prometheus etc.).
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies like Docker.
• Experience with cloud providers like AWS Azure GCP or equivalent.
• Proficiency in version control systems like Git.
• Passion for infrastructure and/or DevOps tooling.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience developing Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and understanding the impact of this architecture in a deployment environment.
• Experience with web application development.