Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting embraces long-term relationships, meaningful impact, and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including IBM Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be supported by mentors and coaches who will encourage you to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and learning opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Job role description: Associate Full-Stack Application Developer

You see the big picture, able to imagine successful technology-driven solutions from start to finish. As an Associate Full-Stack Application Developer, you'll help design, develop, and integrate solutions using best practice technologies, tools, techniques, and products our clients demand today. You'll work with clients, co-creating solutions to major real-world challenges by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment.

Work you could do as an Associate Full Stack Developer:

• Work in an agile, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers.
• Use IBM's Design Thinking to create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.
• Work with a variety of relational and NoSQL databases (SQL, Postgres, DB2, MongoDB), operating systems (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android), and modern UI frameworks (Backbone.js, AngularJS, React.js, Ember.js, Bootstrap, and JQuery).
• Work across the entire system architecture, from backend to front end, to design, develop, and support high quality and scalable products.
• Design and develop a new modern application or sustaining a legacy application.
• Translate software requirements into working and maintainable solutions within the existing application frameworks
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Support Code Review process / tools, troubleshooting, performance tuning
• Help maintain and improve code quality, organization, and automatization
• Create everything from mockups and UI components to algorithms and data structures as you deliver a complete minimally viable product.

Qualification:

• Have flexibility to work across architecture - building both front end and backend
• Proficient in one of the programming languages like Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS
• Have knowledge of modern frameworks such as Angular or React.js
• Familiar with Java/JEE best practices around design patterns, performance tuning, automated tests and unit tests
• Exposure in writing RESTful APIs using Microservices architecture and Spring Boot framework
• Exposure to deploying applications with container technology like Docker and container orchestration technology like Kubernetes or RedHat OpenShift is highly desired
• Familiar with twelve-factor cloud design principles
• Experience in following a structure methodology
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and work effectively with individuals, strengthening relationships to achieve win-win solutions
• Ability to communicate complex situations clearly and simply by listening actively and conveying difficult messages in a positive manner
• A passion for innovative ideas, coupled with the ability to understand and assimilate different points of view
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Ability to thrive in an ever changing, technology based consulting environment, using agile development techniques
• Have exposure to Cloud – AWS, Azure, Google Could or IBM Cloud

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Full Stack
• Good in English
• BS / MS degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology or other related subjects
• No more than 2 years working experience.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• As stated above

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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?

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.

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.