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 sales. 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, join us!

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Full Stack Developer, you'll be using the latest tools and technologies available to deliver state-of-the-art software and web applications. You'll have an opportunity to drive the choice of technologies used as we transform our applications and experiment with the best new tools. The ideal candidate would have experience in JavaScript, Java based Microservices, API Architecture as we need more great skills in these areas to enrich us.

As a Full Stack Application Developer, you will:

• Design, develop and/or re-engineer complex application components, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable objects residing on multiple platforms.

• Be responsible for maintenance and improvement of application's lifecycle.

• Perform application development based on Agile methodologies & participate in requirements / user story analysis, design and execution.

• Conduct appropriate unit and module testing; detect, report, investigate and fix defects in the application (production support)

• Work effectively in collaboration with product managers, other team members, designers and other support functions when required.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with front-end JavaScript and back-end Java development

• Experience of Microservices such as message queues, event sourcing, etc

• Meaningful development experience in modern frontend JavaScript frameworks, such as React or equivalent.

• Experience building restful APIs and Web services in NodeJS, and similar technologies.

• Experience of modern testing frameworks (like Jest, Mocha. etc) for both frontend and backend testing

• Understanding of/experience with Object Oriented Programming

• Solid knowledge on Agile methodology and practices, such as SCRUM, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development (TDD), etc

• Experience working with relational databases and/or NoSQL databases.

• Experience with cloud-hosting solutions and CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Travis, etc.

• Understanding of/experience with Cloud or a similar service e.g. AWS, IBM cloud etc.

• Comfortable multi-tasking and working as part of a global team, as well as working independently and taking ownership.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with Design thinking methods to understand personas and develop great user design.

• Demonstrated ability to operate within short release cycles.

• Experience using modern collaboration tools in a highly responsive environment.

• Great planning and organizational skills, good time management, with the ability to manage and prioritize own workload and to deal with urgent deadlines and changes to requirements.

• Close team working and collaboration across both global and local team environments

• The ability to communicate across organizational boundaries and manage stakeholders.

• A passion for creative solutions to real user needs and business problems.

• Driven to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, addressing the underlying problem and questioning any assumptions.

• Logical approach to problem solving.

• Meticulous attention to detail

• Highly motivated and productive, an entrepreneurial self-starter

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About Business UnitIBM's Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM's Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments-with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

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.

Your Life @ IBMIn 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 IBMIBM'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.

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