Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud & Distributed Systems

International Business Machines Corporation; Markham; In loco; GBP 70.000 - 105.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend systems in production. You will work in an Agile environment to translate stakeholder needs into scalable solutions, with emphasis on reliability, observability, and modern deployment practices.

Responsibilities include developing backend services, deploying on cloud platforms, and contributing to continuous integration and deployment pipelines while collaborating with product partners and engineers.

Competenze

• Experience building, scaling, and operating backend systems in production.
• Proficiency in at least one major backend language (Java/Go/C/C++/Python).
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Hands-on experience with containers/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) and modern deployment practices.
• Experience with observability, incident response, and postmortems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Mansioni

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate backend services ready for production use.
• Scale and operate reliable production systems focusing on performance and maintainability.
• Work with distributed systems, event-driven architectures and data pipelines.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and automated testing and deployment processes.
• Deploy and operate cloud-based services using containers and orchestration.
• Improve observability via metrics, logging, and tracing; support incident response and postmortems.
• Diagnose issues and implement fixes; collaborate with stakeholders to resolve.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate in an Agile environment to deliver team goals.

Conoscenze

Backend development

Java

Go

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Communication

Formazione

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Strumenti

Docker

Kubernetes

Descrizione del lavoro

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend systems in production. You will work in an Agile environment to translate stakeholder needs into scalable solutions, with emphasis on reliability, observability, and modern deployment practices.

Responsibilities include developing backend services, deploying on cloud platforms, and contributing to continuous integration and deployment pipelines while collaborating with product partners and engineers.