Software Developer (Backend developer)

Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions.
The IBM Instana Log Management team is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our team in Kochi.
At Instana we process and analyse millions of spans traces metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base.
As part of a multi-functional team you’ll help expanding Instana’s log management platform. Your role will cover the whole software engineering life cycle from technical design to implementation quality assurance delivery to production as well as maintenance and customer support. If you’re interested it is also possible to support the designer of the team on requirements engineering tasks as well as in customer interviews. Together with your peers you’ll work on a Java based streaming backend which is connected via gRPC and leverages Drop wizard Kafka and Click house mainly. In close collaboration with the two other logging platform teams you’ll contribute to create the best log management platform on the market for our customers.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a key member of our team your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with Product Management and implement feature roadmaps
• Leverage modern tools and techniques to develop clean efficient and reusable code.
• Contribute to performance optimization
• Review code and promote test automation
• Handle issues reported by our customers

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Software Development Expertise:

• 5+ years programming experience in Java J2EE Spring MVC and JavaScript.
• Experience in developing microservices for distributed systems.
• Experience in creating systems leveraging dependency injection and inversion of control
• Experience in container technologies like Docker Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevOps CICD tools like Jenkins Maven

Automation Testing Frameworks Knowledge:

• Experience in automation testing frameworks like Junit Mockito Cypress.

Excellent Problem-Solving Skills:

• Demonstrated excellence in problem-solving with the ability to tackle complex issues and find effective solutions.
• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Self-Starter Mindest:

• A self-starter with a proactive mindset able to initiate and drive projects independently.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience working in cloud service providers like IBM Cloud AWS Google Azure.
• Experience with functional reactive programming paradigm like Project Reactor
• Experience with Google Guice and gRPC.