Senior Software Engineer

Introduction

Introduction
Are you a seasoned backend software engineer driven by a commitment to excellence in building technical solutions for large-scale, high-performance distributed systems? Do you have a curious mindset and a passion for continuous learning and improvement? If you thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you.

About Us
We are a collaborative, high-performing team of developers, product managers, and designers dedicated to solving complex business challenges with elegant, innovative solutions. Our proven track record includes delivering impactful features and functionality that consistently delight our customers.

Your role and responsibilities

You will work with your scrum team to deliver impactful and valuable features operating on a bi-weekly sprint cadence. You will drive cross-team initiatives by working 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.

Key Responsibilites include:

• Focus on ingesting, storing, processing, and analyzing large datasets
• Create scalable, high-performance web services for tracking data
• Translate complex technical and functional requirements into detailed designs
• Serve as a mentor for junior staff members by conducting technical training sessions and reviewing project outputs
• Investigate alternatives for data storing and processing to ensure implementation of the most streamlined solutions

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

• Extensive Experience: A minimum of 7 years in developing and delivering enterprise-grade software solutions, ideally using Java, or Scala. Proficiency in other programming languages will also be considered.
• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of object-oriented design principles, data structures, algorithms, and asynchronous architectural design.
• API Development: Proven experience in designing and building RESTful APIs, with additional expertise in developing large-scale data processing pipelines.
• Database Skills: Hands-on experience with relational databases, including schema design and SQL. Familiarity with database optimization techniques such as query optimization, index creation, and caching strategies.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Practical experience with Kubernetes alongside a deep understanding of containerization technologies like Docker.
• Cloud Technologies: Competence with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience managing Spark clusters, with all included services and ability to solve any ongoing issues with operating the cluster.
• Experience working with Big data pipelines

Preferred technical and professional experience

• 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 in infrastructure deployment tools such as terraform, etc.
• Experience in production on-call handling; Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting tools such as Datadog, Splunk, PagerDuty, etc.

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.

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 50 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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.