Senior Full Stack Developer

Job description

Introduction
Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern software engineering practices? Are you excited to use these practices to deliver and manage mission critical services at scale? Are you a quick thinker? If so, please read on.
Do you love to solve business problems with systems and integrations? Do you want every day to be a bit different and allow you to work with individuals across the spectrum of the organization? Then you just may be a fit for this critical software developer role.
IBM is trailblazing new solutions and services that span key technologies within the IBM Infrastructure portfolio. We are looking for experienced candidates focused on front-end development. As a software engineer, the ideal candidate must bring a deep level of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting modern as-a-service and cloud capabilities.
In addition, they are accountable as individuals and organizational leaders for delivering value by bringing relevant technology domain and implementation expertise in topics aligned with cloud platform integration, orchestration & provisioning, security and DevOps.
As an IBM software developer, you are also expected to assist in the gathering of business and technical requirements, to implement specific technologies while demonstrating progress on a regular basis and to partner with technical leads or project managers to identify and overcome blockers.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Ready to grow your career in the Cloud? Want to have a feeling that you are making a difference? This is your chance to become an integral part of a dynamic team of talented professionals developing and deploying innovative, industry-leading, cloud-based services.

IBM Cloud Core Platform Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading-edge, highly-available, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud. We're looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join us. This technical role is focused on designing, developing and deploying cloud security services, automating wide ranges of tasks, problem-solving, interfacing with other teams, offering managers, and customers to solve complex problems.

You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven to create world-class development and deployment environments, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team, you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers.

Primary responsibilities include but not limited to:
·  Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Platform Services ecosystem
·  Developing highly-available, distributed cloud services, with emphasis on security, scalability and user experience using technologies like Java, Node.js, Golang, Cloudant, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio and more.
·  Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and DevSecOps workflows
·  Documenting and sharing your experience with team members, mentoring others

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  A minimum of a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent with cybersecurity or cryptography coursework
·  Minimum experience of 13 years in developing Enterprise Software Services
·  5-7 years experience in architecture and development of SaaS based security offerings, microservices.
·  At least 3 years experience working in Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methodologies
·  At least 6 years of hands-on development experience building applications with one or more of the following: Java, Spring, Liberty, Node.js, Express.js, Golang, NoSQL DB, Redis, distributed caches, containers etc.
·  Atleast 3 years of experience in UI development in React.js, Redux, Angular and JavaScript
·  At least 3 years of experience building and operating highly secured, distributed cloud services with one or more of the following: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, Docker, container orchestration, performance testing, DevOps etc.
·  At least 3 years of experience in web technologies: HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, Ajax, JavaScript etc.
·  Solid understanding of the micro-service architecture and modern cloud programming practices. Strong ability to design a clean, developer-friendly API.
·  Passionate about constant, continuous learning and applying new technologies as well as mentoring others.
·  Keen troubleshooting skills and strong verbal/written communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Experience in using messaging brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.
·  Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.)
·  Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.
·  Experience and working knowledge of version Control systems like Github and build tools like Maven/Gradle
·  Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly
·  Experience in working on a SaaS application with high industry standard CI/CD, and development cycle processes
·  Strong sense of ownership of deliverables
·  UI test automation skills - Selenium and/or Puppeteer
·  Beyond the requirements, candidates should be passionate about in the role:
·  Continuous learning and ability to adapt to change
·  Working across global teams and collaborating across teams and organization boundaries
·  Finding innovative ways to solve complex problems with cutting edge technologies.