Job Description:
Introduction
Would you like to work in a fun and experimental studio atmosphere? Do you want to help us transform the way IBM engages with its Business Partners?
We are looking for the right person to join our cross-functional agile software development team. We are a diverse and empowered, co-located team of researchers, product owners, designers, developers, and managers located in a purpose-built space designed to encourage collaboration and creativity.
As an Agile delivery organisation, our mission is to deliver best-in-class systems and insights that equip our sales partners to sell more in the marketplace. Our future is on the cloud, with Artificial Intelligence adding real, transformational value.
Our team incorporates Design Thinking and cutting-edge technologies and practices to design and build signature experiences that make people’s lives easier. We operate in an open and flat organisation where everyone’s ideas are valued and we’re able to learn from each other and share successes.
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 for the job based on upcoming industry trends. You’ll be responsible for ensuring that components are expertly architected, tested, debugged, verified, and delivered into various contexts across the IBM Enterprise, creating a productive environment for IBMers and our Business Partners. The ideal candidate would have experience in Java, MicroServices, API Architecture and/or TypeScript, as we need more great skills in these areas to enrich us.
Our team owns IBM global software selling platforms, used by all of IBM software sales, business partners, and IBM software partners.
Like so many, we’re working remotely at present. We’re all looking forward to the new normal, when we can meet again face-to-face. A typical day still begins with the team’s daily stand-up. Then it’s head-down coding time for a couple of hours. Next could be attending a virtual lunch and learn session by one of your colleagues. You may have signed up to one of IBMs over 20,000 free online courses for a refresher on a particular topic before you get back to coding for a few more hours. Perhaps you’re hosting an architecture session where you decide as a team how to solve a specific problem for your product. You complete it, to find someone had submitted code for your review – which you can do easily because you have been working with them for some time and have coached them to write better code.
At IBM we embrace diversity and value what individuals add to our culture. We believe highly empowered teams create the best products – so we take a group of designers, developers, and business analysts, and give them free rein on how to address problems, in a “We give you a problem, you decide how to solve it” environment.
Above all, we value curiosity, teamwork, and a desire to learn. We are confident that if you possess the right attitude, work ethic, and skill set that you could succeed in the role, even if you do not have all the required skills.
Required Skills:
- Experience with back-end Java development
- Experience of Microservices such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, NoSQL. etc
- Meaningful development experience in modern frontend JavaScript frameworks, such as Angular, React, Vue.js, TypeScript or equivalent
- Experience building restful APIs and Web services in NodeJS, and similar technologies.
- Experience of modern testing frameworks (like Mockito, 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 multitasking and working as part of a global team, as well as working independently and taking ownership.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in enterprise transformation of monolithic application architectures to microservices
- 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
- Demonstrable experience coaching junior members of your teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience with back-end Java development
- Experience of Microservices such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, NoSQL. etc
- Meaningful development experience in modern frontend JavaScript frameworks, such as Angular, React, Vue.js, TypeScript or equivalent
- Experience building restful APIs and Web services in NodeJS, and similar technologies.
- Experience of modern testing frameworks (like Mockito, 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 multitasking and working as part of a global team, as well as working independently and taking ownership.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience in enterprise transformation of monolithic application architectures to microservices
- 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
- Demonstrable experience coaching junior members of your teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills