Senior Software Developer

  • Software Engineering
  • Entry Level

Senior Software Developer

  • Software Engineering
  • Entry Level

Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We’re looking for a Software Developer to join our platform team.
Specific responsibilities will include:

  • Work as part of an agile team, accurately estimating and then delivering complex features.
  • Develop microservice-based application components.
  • Work extensively with Java and cloud native tools, applying principles of object-oriented design.
  • Strong Java development and debugging skills
  • Test driven development, Design and develop automated tests to prevent regressions
  • Experience with developing complex multi-threaded applications
  • Self-directed, eager to learn with a desire to work in a fast paced development environment
  • Build SaaS solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership for end-to-end project design and development.
  • Build and maintain REST API endpoints.
  • Provide thorough, professional documentation of new features and software as it is developed.
  • Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions and code review in collaboration with other teams.
  • Consult with product management team about user needs and software requirements.
  • Participate in customer calls and provide assistance to support team to help address technical issues.
  • Communication, organization, critical, analytical thinking and research skills are critical in this role.

The tech stack includes: Java, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Consul, Kafka, Protobuf/gRPC, REST, React, Redshift and ThoughtSpot.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 5+ years of experience
  • Thorough understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design, Databases, Security principles, including authentication, authorization, certificates, RBAC, etc.
  • Demonstrated strong Java development and debugging skills.
  • Demonstrated academic coursework or internship experience:
    – in design and developing software,
    – in architecture and modeling of components,
    – in web-based applications.
  • Coursework, other academic project or internship experience with Java, algorithms, SQL Databases, object-oriented design, web application development, distributed systems and micro services, principles of cloud computing, containers and kubernetes, linux operating system.
  • Background with web application stack and common design patterns in web framework
  • Must have strong communication and team working skills.


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Experience on working in kubernetes based application stack – microservices
    Experience in go and python
  • Understanding the CI-CD pipeline and how maven + git work
  • Experience with Linux systems

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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 , 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.

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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.


Location Statement

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.


Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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