Software Developer
Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's 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.
Your role and responsibilities
Key responsibilities:
Provide code fixes, patches and configuration adjustments as part of the Continuous Engineering team.
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including system errors, performance bottlenecks and integration problems.
Develop and/or maintain user-facing features, reusable components and libraries using modern front-end frameworks.
Implement secure, scalable, reliable and performant APIs adhering to design standards.
Collaborate with customer support team to diagnose, troubleshoot and solve technical issues reported by customers.
Analyse logs, error messages, and other diagnostic tools to isolate issues in both server-side and client-side components.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Required technical and professional Expertise:
5+ years of hands-on experience in Java web application development, with a focus on distributed systems and microservices architecture.
Experience in building, supporting and troubleshooting complex services implemented as REST APIs or SOAP webservices.
Strong experience with relational databases and SQL (e.g., writing complex queries, performance tuning).
Experience with front-end development using JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React), HTML and CSS.
Good knowledge on web application security and handling security vulnerabilities.
Proficiency in Shell Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, or similar) for automating system tasks and processes.
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Solid experience in analysing, troubleshooting, debugging and resolving complex issues in multi-tiered applications.
Familiar with Git and Jenkins for managing code, build and deployments; build tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle etc.
Familiar with automation frameworks such as selenium, UIPath, playwright or any typescript/python based framework would be an add-on.
Proficient in understanding and working with both Linux and Windows operating systems.
Preferred technical and professional experience
Preferred technical and professional expertise:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Masters in related fields.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, enterprise systems, and system architectures.
Prior experience with assisting support team in diagnosing and fixing production issues in a timely manner.
Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving and communication skills.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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.
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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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