Back-End Developer

Job description

Introduction
We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Your main duties will include designing and implementing new features, optimizing and maintaining existing code, and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to ensure the software meets user needs.

What you’ll do:
·  Participate in software design and code reviews. Reviews include other Software Engineers and are held to ensure a high level of software quality and to share knowledge with team members.
·  Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management (git), and GitHub.
·  Ensure good code coverage. Support bug fixes during testing and deploy to target environments.
·  Diagnose complex issues, evaluate, recommend and execute the best solution
·  Create/maintain technical documentation.
·  Hands on experience in handling and debugging customer issues, work with L2 support team.
·  You will be providing vigilance and compliance to various software engineering, support and release processes e.g security, stack upgrades that are free of vulnerabilities etc."

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Experience in Core Java, Java J2EE, microservices architecture.
·  Experience in Building Restful API, SDK APIs using different frameworks.
·  Experience designing and implementing microservices which use the Spring Boot framework.
·  Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Ansible, Jenkins, Tekton, Linux Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.)
·  You should be a self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills, able to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or relevant background- Advantage