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Your Role and Responsibilities Our Data and AI Development team is looking for an enthusiastic and talented Full Stack Developer to help shape the future of the IBM data management portfolio, of fundamental importance to IBM's strategic direction on hybrid data management offerings for IBM Db2 , IBM Cloud Pak for Data watsonx.data (IBM's data Lakehouse for AI workloads), and more.
You will work alongside local and global teams of Developers, Architects, and Engineers creating the future of enterprise data management in the context of AI. You are a Back-End Software Developer, who will design, develop, maintain, and support complex product components on multiple platforms. As an ambitious individual who can work closely with a senior architect's direction, you have the ability to manage change and to work under pressure.
You are curious to learn, as demonstrated by your up-to-date technical knowledge. You are a capable team player, familiar with Agile methodologies and principles, or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek someone who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, and collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom along with the opportunity to work in a high performing enterprise software team.
As a Full Stack Developer, you will:
Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to design, build, deploy, configure, and maintain IBM Data and AI data management software, including SaaS products on multiple hyperscalers.
Design and implement new features, optimizing and maintaining existing code in a variety of languages, including Java, SQL, Python, Go.
Ensure the software meets the quality standards of enterprise-grade, mission critical software.
Work closely with other developers, architects, designers, and product managers
Work with renowned IBM products, including open-source technologies.
Develop using object-oriented, and multi-threaded, and highly concurrent programming techniques.
Implement industry standards and best practices for security.
Develop SQL queries, and back-end database procedures and algorithms.
Drive software design and code reviews.
Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration.
Create and maintain technical documentation.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
10+ years of relevant experience in software development
Strong software programming experience and skills using languages like Java/Go
Exposure to UI development framework like ReactJS.
Exposure to Shell scripting languages Bash/Perl/Python/Ruby
Strong problem determination and resolution skills
Exposure to best practices in design, development and testing of software
Working experience with SQL databases (Db2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server etc)
Understanding of with Virtualization and Containerization technologies
Developer knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes frameworks
Development familiarity with the usage of Cloud Services (IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure)
Knowledge of Linux/UNIX Operating Systems
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience in developing using JAVA/Go
Experience with containerized application development/deployment technologies and environments (Docker, Kubernetes Operators, OpenShift)
Experience with cloud environments, (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
Experience with Db2 databases
Experience with agile software development
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies, DevOps
Experience with test-driven development or secure software engineering best practices
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.
This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.
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