Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

Data and AI Development team is looking for enthusiastic and talented Backend development Engineer to join us. Our services belong to Match360 product portfolio. Our services are tightly integrated with IBM Cloud Pak for Data where customers can access a suite of leading data and AI capabilities in a unified experience. You are a Backend Developer, who will Design, develop and/or re-engineer complex product components, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable objects residing on multiple platforms. As an ambitious individual who can work under senior architect's direction towards agreed targets and goals, you have the ability to manage change and to work under stress. You are curious to learn as demonstrated by your up-to-date technical knowledge. You are a good team player and you are familiar with Agile methodologies and principles and/or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, fun, spirited, collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team.

Job Responsibilities:

• As a Backend developer you will be responsible for development/ maintenance/ Support of the Match360 applications through the full systems development lifecycle.

• Participate in the design and implementation of sophisticated software systems

• You will work with the Product Architects, Product Managers to understand various priorities and work towards the execution.

• Participate in software design and code reviews. Reviews include other Software Engineers and are held to ensure a high level of software quality and to share knowledge with team members.

• Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management (git), and GitHub.

• Ensure good code coverage. Support bug fixes during testing and deploy to target environments.

• Participate in the planning, creation and execution of automated test cases and load/performance testing. Create/maintain technical documentation.

• Hands on experience in handling and debugging customer issues, work with L2 support team.

• Maintain a high level of proficiency with Computer Science/Software Engineering knowledge and contribute to the technical skills growth of other team members.

• You will be providing vigilance and compliance to various software engineering, support and release processes e.g security, stack upgrades that are free of vulnerabilities etc.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of professional/industrial experience in software development.

• Expertise in Core Java, Java J2EE, , MicroServices Architecture.

• Expertise in Building Restful API, SDK APIs using different frameworks.

• Experience writing / executing Unit Tests and REST API automation with RestAssured.

• Should have experience in JSP, Servlets, XML and JSON, Ant.

• Knowledge of database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL and Graph Databases.

• Experience in using messaging brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.

• Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Linux Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.).

• Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP etc.

• Experience and working knowledge of version Control systems like Github and build tools like Maven/Gradle.

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly.

• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Degree in Computer Science, , Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

• Working experience on Docker/Kubernetes, the DevOps, Micro services, RedHat OpenShift, Java J2EE

• Willing to lead and work on quick proof of concepts.

• Experience in working on MDM / Master Data Management ecosystem.

• Experience in working on OnPrem Application install on LInux/Windows/AIX using Webspere Application Server and databases such as DB2/Oracle/SQL Server.

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This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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