Expoint - all jobs in one place

The point where experts and best companies meet

Limitless High-tech career opportunities - Expoint

IBM Backend Developer 
United States, Texas, Austin 
351995158

27.03.2025

You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven to create world-class development and deployment environments, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team, you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers.

Your role and responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Platform Services ecosystem

  • Developing highly-available, distributed cloud services, with emphasis on security, scalability and user experience using technologies like Java, Node.js, Golang, Cloudant, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio and more.

  • Reading open specifications and RFC documents and converting them to design docs and implementation

  • Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and DevSecOps workflows

  • Documenting and sharing your experience with team members, mentoring others

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • A minimum of a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree.

  • 2+ year experience working in Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methodologies

  • 2+ year of hands-on development experience building applications with one or more of the following: Java, Node.js, Express.js, Golang, NoSQL DB, SQL, Redis, distributed caches, etc.

  • 2+ years of experience building and operating highly secured, distributed cloud services with one or more of the following: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, Docker, container orchestration, performance testing, DevOps etc.

  • 2+ years of experience in one or more web technologies: HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, JavaScript, etc.

  • Understanding of micro-service architecture and modern cloud programming practices. Strong ability to design a clean, developer-friendly API.

  • Passionate about constant, continuous learning and applying new technologies as well as mentoring others.

  • Keen troubleshooting skills and strong verbal/written communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Understanding of cloud computing and cybersecurity principles

  • Experience in security or identity and access management

  • Experience with front end development specifically in react and/or angular

  • Experience in remotely supporting customer engagements to help driving the product adoption

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.

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.