Introduction
As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world's technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!

Your Role and Responsibilities

You see the big picture, able to imagine successful technology-driven solutions from start to finish.
As a 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, cocreating solutions to major real-world challenges by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 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.
  

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 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 as ever changing, technology based consulting environment, using agile development techniques
• Have exposure to Cloud - AWS, Azure, Google Could or IBM Cloud

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.

Are you craving to learn more? Prepared to solve some of the world's most unique challenges? And ready to shape the future for millions of people? If so, then it's time to join us, express your individuality, unleash your curiosity and discover new possibilities.
Every IBMer, and potential ones like yourself, has a voice, carves their own path, and uses their expertise to help co-create and add to our story. Together, we have the power to make meaningful change – to alter the fabric of our clients, of society and IBM itself, to create a truly positive impact and make the world work better for everyone.
It's time to define your career.

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.