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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

Data and AI Development team is looking for enthusiastic and talented Back-End Developer to join us. Our services, including Db2, belong to the Data & AI product portfolio. Our services are tightly integrated with IBM Cloud Pak for Data where customers can access a suite of leading data and AI capabilities in a unified experience.

You are a Back-End Developer, who will design, develop, maintain, and support complex product components, and integrate software packages and programs on multiple platforms.

As an ambitious individual who can work closely with a senior architect's direction towards agreed targets and goals, 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, and you are familiar with Agile methodologies and principles, or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, and collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team.

As a Back-End Developer, you will:

• Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to 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 C/C++, SQL, Perl, Python, Go, and Java.

• Ensure the software meets the high-quality standards of enterprise-grade, mission critical software.

• Work closely with other developers, architects, designers, and product managers

• Work with renowned IBM products, including successful open-source technologies.

• Develop using object-oriented and multi-threaded, concurrent programming techniques.

• Implement industry standards and best practices for security

• Develop SQL queries, and back-end database procedures and algorithms

• Participate in 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

• 8+ years of software development experience

• Expertise with languages including C and C++, SQL, and Perl or Python is required

• Experience and comfort in Linux/UNIX development environments is required

• Experience writing / executing unit and functional tests

• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and database technologies

• An understanding of container technologies including Docker or Podman, and Linux operating systems

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables

• Demonstrated communication skills and should be a good team player

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly.

• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables

• Demonstrated communication skills and should be a good team player

• Experience and working knowledge of version control systems such as Git and GitHub, as well as tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, Tekton, and Maven would be an asset

• An understanding of container technologies including Docker or Podman, and , Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, and Linux operating systems is preferred.

About Business UnitIBM 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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