Software Developer (Java Back-End) - IBM Data Intelligence

Introduction

The Mission

We are seeking you, a skilled back-end software developer, to join IBM's Data Intelligence development team. We provide worldwide enterprises with high-quality software products, ensuring data is reliable, accurate, complete, trustworthy, AI-ready, and compliant with regulations. Data intelligence helps organizations discover, curate, trust, and access data through cataloging, quality assurance, governance, and lineage tracing. You will contribute to taking IBM® Manta Data Lineage to a new level, and help our customers determine data flow throughout their models and systems by increasing their data pipeline transparency.

The Team

The candidate will join the international Engineering team, based in Prague, Krakow, Lisbon, Porto, India, and the US. The team includes software developers, DevOps, QA engineers, AppSec, architects, and PMs.

Your Role And Responsibilities

What you’ll do as part of the role:

Design, implement, integrate, test, optimize, and maintain new data lineage features and components.

Develop data agents allowing the customers to retrieve lineage from their data sources

Deliver features as a whole – you will not focus just on small parts, but on the complete user experience

Utilize Java 17 and 21, Spring, Jenkins, SonarQube, GitHub, and jUnit

Discuss performance and optimize

Write clean, stable, extensible, automation-tested, and code-reviewed code.

Leverage agile SW development while working closely with the other developers, architects, QA engineers, DevOps, and product managers to refine and iterate product requirements. Maintain a no-nonsense approach within a corporate environment.

Cooperate with the L2 support team when handling and debugging customer issues in the target environment.

Create/maintain technical documentation.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Good autonomy in Java, Spring/Spring Boot and the open-source ecosystem (Apache etc.), microservices architecture, and building RESTful APIs.

Experienced in writing automated tests across the entire testing pyramid routinely - from atomic unit tests to end-to-end tests covering the full functionality.

Solid understanding of relational databases (we use PostgreSQL mostly) and ORMs in general (we use MyBatis)

Ability to discuss performance, stability, and other non-functional requirements and design and implement according to it

Previous exposure to CI&CD practices (Jenkins / Tekton, etc.)

Advanced communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Being a self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills, able to work independently and as part of a team.

Strong sense of ownership and delivery

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent), or relevant background

You understand the development process very well and are eager to suggest improvements

Experience with supporting production software and providing L3 support

Basic containerization knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform, etc).

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