Sr. Software Development Engineer

Your role and responsibilities

We are a team of passionate developers, product managers, and designers dedicated to building innovative solutions that empower customers to plan, analyze, and optimize IT spending across traditional and cloud infrastructures. Our collaborative culture encourages creativity, growth, and excellence. As we expand our capabilities, we are seeking a skilled Senior Software Development Engineer to help us shape the future of IBM.

In this role you are a seasoned software engineer who excels at designing and implementing high-performance, user-centric solutions. You bring a passion for solving complex problems, fostering continuous improvement, and driving innovation. You thrive in agile, fast-paced, and collaborative environments, where your expertise elevates both your team's performance and the quality of your work.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will be responsible for the following:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable software solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to gather requirements and define solutions.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues across the software lifecycle.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation for codebases, processes, and system designs.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Champion best practices in software development, including code quality, testing, and CI/CD processes.
• Participate in live-site de-escalation and incident management as part of the PagerDuty rotation.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of proven experience in enterprise-level software development.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architectures, modern API designs, and implementations, preferably in object-oriented programming.
• Expert proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language, such as Java or C#.
• Familiarity with modern software development methodologies, including Agile/Kanban, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Relevant experience in system design with AWS, Azure Cloud services
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to tackle challenging technical issues.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Comfortable with fast moving software design and development methodologies.
• Passionate and driven to design and implement scalable, programmatic solutions in complex system.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in additional scripting languages, such as Go or Python.
• Technical leadership experience in building and delivering complex software systems.
• Robust knowledge of data structures, algorithms, enterprise systems, asynchronous architectures, and object-oriented programming.
• Demonstrated experience with best SDLC practices: coding standards, reviews, code management, build processes, and testing.
• Experience building large applications at scale using modern best-practices.
• Relevant experience in design and implementation of applications with AI / ML capabilities.
• Previous experience mentoring or leading junior engineers.

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.