IBM jobs - Developer

Introduction
Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do.  Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide.  At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects for defining and validating the architecture and the software design of the components and modules that have to be implemented on the platform
• Design and implement components and features of the web UI using various front-end technologies, languages and frameworks
• Define together with the back-end engineers the REST APIs for the features of the services being built using JSON format (input and output) and implement the processing of the API related data
• Use various tools for building and deploying the developed features into the micro-services architecture using Docker containers
• Write unit tests and work with QA engineers for defining end-to-end test cases and helping with the automated testing for the system
• Collaborate with product managers and business analysts for understanding, refining and estimating the functional requirements of the system captured in user stories
• Collaborate with the UX team for understanding and refining the UI visual design and the user experience of the features built
• Collaborate with all the team members by using an agile process with related practices and tools.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 7+ years of experience as a software developer building enterprise class software products
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience as a front-end developer, working with web technologies and frameworks and with JavaScript / TypeScript programming languages;
• Relevant industry experience in building complex products using Node.js.
• Experience of minimum 5 years with at least one of the latest JavaScript related web frameworks: Angular (6 and above),React, Vue.js and tools (Node, NPM, Grunt etc)
• Proficiency with building responsive web pages with HTML5, CSS and related frameworks (Bootstrap, Materialize, Carbon)
• Knowledge and experience with consuming and building RESTfull APIs using JSON data and best practices related to their implementation
• Knowledge of general software architecture and software design concepts and experience of applying them in the development of commercial software products
• Experience with software applications built on the micro-services architecture and related tools and technologies;

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Expert JavaScript developer with at least 3-4 years of recent experience in Angular 6 or above framework and related techs (TypeScript, WebPack, ngrx, etc)
• Relevant industry experience in building complex products using Node.js.
• Advanced knowledge and relevant industry experience in building complex enterprise products in one or more programming languages – like JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS
• Advanced architecture and software design knowledge, design patterns and best practices for performance, reliability and optimization
• Experience writing unit tests and other UI automated tests with various test frameworks (like Jasmine, Karma, Protractor)
• Some experience and interest in UI Design and UX concepts
• Experience with the micro-services architecture, software containers and related technologies (Docker containers, Docker Compose, Kubernetes)
• Some practical working experience with cloud computing technologies (like VMware) and APIs for public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and/or Softlayer;