Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Apptio, an IBM company, is the leading technology spend and value management software provider. Its AI-powered data insights empower leaders to make smarter financial and operational decisions. A pioneer and category leader in Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps, Apptio works with thousands of customers, partners, and community members worldwide. Visit www.apptio.com.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Help us create our market-defining SaaS enterprise applications! In this role, you will be responsible for designing and delivering our own platform that Apptio operates on, with a variety of exciting and challenging features. For example, our work includes interaction with various teams within the company to deliver applications and systems that support growth and automate processes such as authentication, authorization, provisioning and delivering shared components used by other engineering teams.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Apptio, you will work closely with the Engineering team, Product Managers and Designers in helping our customers discover new savings opportunities in hybrid cloud environments. You will be designing and building microservices and modular user interfaces that can be shared by multiple applications. You will help design and engineer efficient and resilient software products that run at ‘cloud-scale’. You will participate in design, architecture and code reviews, foster collaboration, and guide the team through roadmap deliverables and other technical challenges. Above all, you will work as a technical leader to provide our customers with a great product while helping to grow a strong engineering team.

In a Typical Week You Will:

• Understand the on-going work and priorities within the team and help plan for the upcoming tasks within the sprint and beyond.
• Partner with the product team to understand the problem space, the competitive landscape and constraints and help deliver engineering solutions that work both for the customer and Apptio.
• Participate in design/code reviews, collaborate, provide direction and implement features.
• Lead by example in writing high quality secure code, improve test coverage and ensure performance and observability.
• Join daily standups to discuss project status, new projects, and blocking issues.
• Help lead communities of practice, technical lunch & learn sessions, and engineering book clubs to continue learning
• Mentor junior team members

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience delivering enterprise level software preferably in Java but other languages also considered.
• Expertise with popular AWS, Azure and/or GCP services for compute, storage and databases etc.
• Proficient with Java
• Experience with relational DB’s
• Experience with Microservices Architecture, modern API designs and implementations
• Desire to operate and excel in a dev-ops team
• Competent with Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable with fast moving software design and development methodologies
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Knowledge of Golang
• Familiar with AuthN/AuthZ concepts/technologies
• Experience with React or similar front-end technologies
• Familiar navigating the nuances of 3rd party integrations with applications, APIs and SaaS/PaaS providers