Introduction
Team is looking for a Backend Software Developer to join our team. At Instana, we process and analyze millions of spans, traces, metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable observability intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base. Your role will cover the whole software engineering life cycle from technical design to implementation, quality assurance, delivery to production as well as maintenance and customer support. If you're interested, it is also possible to support the designer of the team on requirements engineering tasks as well as in customer interviews. You will drive cross team efforts to deliver larger solutions, architect, collaborate with all stakeholders to deliver cutting edge solutions as required.
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Your role and responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product Management and implement feature roadmaps.
- Leverage modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient and reusable code.
- Contribute to performance optimization.
- Review code and promote test automation.
- Handle issues reported by our customers.
- Provide production support to our SRE's, field teams, and customers for the features we develop.
- Mentor junior developers as we grow the team.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 8+ years programming experience in Java, J2EE and JavaScript.
- Experience in developing microservices for distributed systems.
- Experience in container technologies like docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience working with datastores such as: Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or Kafka
- Experience in automation testing frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Spring Test, Cypress.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving techniques
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience working in cloud service providers like IBM Cloud, AWS, Google, Azure.
- Experience with functional reactive programming paradigm like Project Reactor
- Experience with C++, GoLang
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.
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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.
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ABOUT IBM
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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.
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