Senior Backend Developer

Introduction

A career in IBM means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM Cloud Serverless Platform:

IBM Cloud Code Engine is IBM's fully managed, serverless platform on IBM Cloud that runs your containerized workloads, including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, and batch jobs with run-to-completion characteristics. The Code Engine experience is designed so that you can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it.

Your role and responsibilities

We're evolving quickly, and you will have the opportunity to influence and be part of that evolution. As a cloud native developer on IBM Cloud, you'll be at the heart of implementing the next wave of IBM Cloud Serverless capabilities.

• You will work on every facet of the service - from the earliest stage of product architecture, design and development to deployment, troubleshooting, and performance analysis - to ensure a reliable quality product.
• Design & implement complex features, deliver on IBM Cloud Platform.
• Work in an agile environment, developing software components in a continuous delivery fashion.
• Embrace and promote agile development best practices including pair programming, test driven development and automation of daily routine in test, deployment and production.
• Operate the Cloud service you develop in collaboration with internal and external clients (DevOps).
• Ensure compliance and security integrity of the environment and build secure practices. Have a deep understanding of how security impacts each stage of the development pipeline and the final product or service. Identify gaps and embed secure practices into our processes.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing, testing and identifying software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
• Ensure architectural consistency and alignment with industry standards and best practices.
• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables.
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills using various quality tool
• Participate in periodic on-call rotation in the India time zone as part of a global 7x24 environment

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Software development architecture and design
• Knowledgeable in software engineering including API and microservice development
• 5- 7+ years of experiences in building, deploying and managing large scale services / platforms for Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud or Google Cloud.
• 4-5 years Go Lang, Python and Terraform development
• IaaS, PaaS and Containerization: e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift
• 4-5 years Cloud native development and programming language experience: e.g. Knative, Operator Framework, Postgres, RestAPI
• 5-7+ years Agile development methods.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Having exposure to Deployable architecture framework
• Exceptional problem-solver, with ability to understand root cause and move forward and close on problems at the root cause

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: IBM-62332

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-11T18:47:51