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IBM Senior Software Development Engineer, Apptio in Seattle, Washington

Introduction

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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

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.

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Location StatementIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to: - Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being - Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs - Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law - Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals - Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year. This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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