Cloud Backend Developer

About the position

IBM Infrastructure offers clients the enterprise IT infrastructure they need to lead in the era of Hybrid Cloud and AI. The latest generation of IBM servers, storage, associated software, and support - as well as our IBM Cloud Platform - can help clients modernize and scale on-premises and in the cloud with secure hybrid cloud and trusted AI automation and insights. The successful candidate will be part of the IBM Infrastructure Platform organization with the following key responsibilities: Development and maintenance of key as-a-service capabilities, Supporting customer/business requirements, Developing tools for support teams to enable them to quickly respond to customer requests, Helping service providers to successfully onboard onto Infrastructure platform capabilities. Partnering with Global Teams to provide related production support.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of key as-a-service capabilities
• Supporting customer/business requirements
• Developing tools for support teams to enable them to quickly respond to customer requests
• Helping service providers to successfully onboard onto Infrastructure platform capabilities
• Partnering with Global Teams to provide related production support
• Developing knowledge of major cloud and as-a-service technologies
• Implementing modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient and reusable code
• Identifying and addressing design, development and delivery performance bottlenecks
• Leveraging monitoring tools to gain insight into performance or potential failure points
• Coordinating with support and development teams to follow up on dependencies and issues
• Defining, implementing and executing unit tests (including automation)

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 to 6 years of experience in software development
• Experience with GO, Python, NodeJS, REST, JSON
• Experience with Cloudant or NoSQL database, Jenkins
• Experience with agile software development, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Experience in working with large teams distributed across geo locations
• Strong debug skills, effective verbal and written communication skills, team oriented

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of the IBM Cloud platforms or another as-a-service platform and its architecture
• Experience working in a startup / scale-up business environment
• Proficient with one or more project management tools - Jira, Git, Aha, etc