Staff Software Development 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
Are you a lead software engineer with a passion for building scalable micro-services that handle
massive amounts of data and form the backbone of customer-facing managed services? We are a
growing SaaS company centred that helps customers enterprises plan analyse and optimize their IT spending across traditional and cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who is passionate about building large scale services optimized for performance efficiency and handling lots of data. You will be responsible for designing new services revamping existing ones and guiding the team’s overall system design and architecture.
As part of our growing team you will:

• Build cloud-natives services that solve new and existing business challenges and customer needs.
• Design and implement resilient systems and that horizontally scale.
• Dive into complex architectures and research and identify new technologies to solve tough problems.
• Influence multiple teams and hold a high bar for systems architecture operations and quality.
• Mentor and foster career growth for junior engineers.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 12 to 15 years of experience in enterprise level software architecture design development (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experienced in Full Stack product development
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related field
• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures algorithm design and problem solving.
• Extensive knowledge and deep understanding of Java and related technologies
• Experience with modern software development methodologies: Agile/Kanban CI/CD DevOps etc.
• Proficiency in Full Stack product development
• Proficiency with Java is essential.
• Proficiency with React TypeScript JavaScript HTML CSS is essential
• Proficient with REST APIs
• Proficient with product development experience on both front end and back end
• Experience with AWS and/or other public cloud technologies.
• Database Experience (query optimization index generation caching) or NoSQL DBs a plus

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong customer focus ownership and drive
• Demonstrated capability to provide depth and breadth technical leadership
• Experience in SaaS Solutions
• At least one additional modern programming language such as Go Scala Python.
• Good knowledge of advanced concepts in microservices containers
• Experience in mentoring recruiting and team-building
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal