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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.

We’re seeking an experienced, motivated, hands-on engineer with innovative ideas for building large-scale enterprise applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will apply your deep expertise in designing, developing, and delivering world-class software. You will also contribute to providing technical direction and developing strategies for long-term product growth. This role requires versatility, strong leadership qualities, and an open mind to tackle new challenges faced by our customers

Your role and responsibilities
  • Design, develop, test, and maintain complex software programs, including modules, features, and components, while ensuring alignment with project specifications.
  • Gather and evaluate software project requirements, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and troubleshoot complex software issues to recommend or implement solutions.
  • Collaborate with management to plan, schedule, and assign projects to development teams, ensuring timely delivery and resource optimization.
  • Participate in design and code reviews, interact with the Quality Assurance team, and contribute to test procedures to ensure system quality, performance, and reliability.
  • Write and maintain technical documentation, provide input for user documentation, and review materials for technical accuracy and completeness.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 4–5 years of experience developing enterprise applications using Java, J2EE, and related technologies.
  • Hands-on experience with RDBMS (e.g., Oracle, IBM DB2) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra).
  • Strong understanding of advanced algorithms for designing and developing enterprise-grade software.
  • Experience in writing code with streaming tools like Kafka and leveraging cloud functions (serverless compute).
  • In-depth knowledge of microservice architecture and deployment models for enterprise-grade cloud environments (public and private).
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Proficiency in software development tools and methods, related software languages, test design, configuration, and integration with systems, applications, products, and services.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to test, analyze data, and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Proven organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively and provide guidance to less experienced team members.
  • Expertise in debugging and troubleshooting issues related to memory, performance, battery usage, and network optimization.

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 development, 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.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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.

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