Cloud-Native Backend Engineer for Kafka & Microservices

IBM; Hursley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is at the forefront of AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Backend engineers join a team solving diverse challenges, building scalable cloud services and contributing to Confluent Cloud components.

You will work with modern technologies, gain exposure to distributed systems, and grow through collaboration with experienced engineers focused on reliability, testing, and best practices in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Experience developing backend software in production.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, C/C++, Python or similar.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, microservices and cloud-native development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on scalable, reliable services.
• Troubleshoot and debug across microservices, containers and cloud infrastructure.
• Write clean, well-tested code following engineering best practices.
• Contribute to code reviews, discussions and documentation.
• Support deployment, monitoring and operation of production services.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver projects and resolve challenges.
• Learn and contribute to improvements in reliability and performance.

Skills

Backend development

Java/Python/Go

Testing & debugging

Code reviews

Team collaboration

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud services

Job description

IBM Software is at the forefront of AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Backend engineers join a team solving diverse challenges, building scalable cloud services and contributing to Confluent Cloud components.

You will work with modern technologies, gain exposure to distributed systems, and grow through collaboration with experienced engineers focused on reliability, testing, and best practices in a fast-paced cloud environment.