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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 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.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

As a senior developer on the Java Tools team, you will focus on evolving Java Development Tools in Eclipse and ensuring modern IDE compatibility. You will contribute to critical components like Eclipse JDT, JDT-LS, and VS Code Java, directly impacting the productivity of developers using Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces and other enterprise tooling environments. This includes:


  • Enhancing Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT) with modern compiler support, specifically javac support

  • Contributing to cross-project efforts across the Eclipse IDE ecosystem, working with interdependent components such as Eclipse Platform and various JDT sub-projects (Core, Debug, etc.)

  • Improving the Java Development Tools Language Server (JDT-LS) which powers modern Java editing experiences, including in Visual Studio Code

  • Supporting key partnerships, including collaboration with Microsoft on VS Code Java and maintaining continuity amid shifting engineering focus

  • Troubleshooting, testing, and enhancing the developer tooling experience for cloud-based and containerized developer environments like Dev Spaces

Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise


  • Deep experience with Java development

  • Expertise with Eclipse JDT, including modifying or extending core components like the compiler, AST, or refactoring tools

  • Familiarity with Language Server Protocol (LSP) and experience contributing to or maintaining JDT-LS.

  • Ability to navigate and contribute across multiple Eclipse projects, understanding the impact of changes across platform and IDE components

  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and collaborative skills — especially in large, distributed open-source or semi-open-source projects

  • Experience with developing Visual Studio Code extensions

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Background in developer experience or developer productivity tooling

  • A strong understanding of Java compiler internals and Java language evolution

  • Contributions to open-source Java tooling projects (e.g., Eclipse, VS Code Java, JDT-LS, Quarkus tooling)

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 500 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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