IBM Senior Backend Developer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

591847042

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a key member of our dynamic team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences. Your responsibilities will encompass the design and implementation of innovative features, fine-tuning and sustaining existing code for optimal performance, and guaranteeing top-notch quality through rigorous testing and debugging. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do, and you’ll be working closely with fellow developers, designers, and product managers to ensure our software aligns seamlessly with user expectations.

Essential Job Functions may include many of the following:

• Understand the architecture, design, and implementation of the webMethods products.
• Understand webMethods product internals/APIs, inter-product, and third-party software dependencies to ensure high-quality software
• Understand customer usage scenarios to fix issues or implement features better effectively
• Develops designs, prototypes, and working code for key feature sets
• Implement features as per requirements, fix defects in the product reported internally or by customers
• Develop unit/end-to-end scenario tests
• Collaborate with other R&D teams (Architecture, Engg, QA, Doc, Globalization)
• Use expertise in reading/debugging existing code to make the most optimal change to fix problems reported by Customers
• Handle and resolve Performance issues
• Respond promptly to customer escalations and provide timely updates. Manage customer expectations
• Actively provide guidance, direction, and collaborate with rest of Scrum team
• Collaborate with engineering and solution teams to implement best practices and methodology
• Collaborate with PM and Support teams for feature requirements and customer issues.
• Assists other team members with their tasks when necessary to make sure the team’s success.
• Takes ownership and ensures proactive closure for problem reports that fall within or appear to fall within area of responsibility;
• Routinely mentor junior members of the team, share knowledge and best practices, encourage team to share knowledge and practices
• Review code, training materials, documentation, marketing materials for accuracy and contribute to content as needed
• Use expertise in the usage of design patterns and other methodologies for better design
• Design and implement scalable and high performance products.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 8-12 years of professional Java development experience.

Software Development Skills:

• The candidate should also have significant depth in several different disciplines related to
• software development. These skills should include a working knowledge of:
• Excellent understanding of advance Java concepts like Concurrency, Classloading, Security
• Experience with JSON/XML and related technologies for data transformation
• Solid understanding of design, enterprise integration patterns , architecture principles and best practises
• Good understanding and experience of building REST/SOAP based applications.
• Experience and familarity working with messaging protocols (JMS) and systems.
• Experience and familarity working with SQL/NoSQL database system.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and build tools such as Maven, Gradle and Jenkins
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Problem-Solving Skills:
• Good Analytical & Logical Thinking
• Ability to deal with reasonable complexity and apply innovative techniques for solving challenging problems

Learning & Team Mindset:

• Team player and be able to contribute to the team following Scrum/Kanban as applicable
• Shows personal commitment to the team and its goals and working in a collaborative environment
• Be adaptive to learn new skills and perform multiple roles as required by the team from time to time
• Mostly work independently in the team or with mentorship from senior members of the team
• Should constantly develop his / her Technical skills, Product Knowledge and Personality

Soft Skills:

• Good communication and problem-solving skills
• Good presentation skills
• Good time-management skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities
• Ability to mentor the team and steer them towards Lean/Agile/Scrum goals.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Familiarity or experience in Middleware or Integration domain
• Familiarity with standards such as REST, Swagger/OpenAPI, OData, GraphQL, XML/JSON Schema, SOAP – WS Standards (WS-Addressing, WS-Security, etc..) and frameworks (AXIS2, Apache Camel framework).