Backend Software Developer (m,w,x)

Instana team is looking for a Backend Software Developer to join our team. At Instana, we process and analyze millions of spans, traces, metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable observability intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base. Your role will cover the whole software engineering life cycle from technical design to implementation, quality assurance, delivery to production as well as maintenance and customer support. If you're interested, it is also possible to support the designer of the team on requirements engineering tasks as well as in customer interviews.

Your role and responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Management and implement feature roadmaps.
• Leverage modern tools and techniques to develop clean, efficient and reusable code.
• Contribute to performance optimization.
• Review code and promote test automation.
• Handle issues reported by our customers.
• Provide production support to our SRE’s, field teams, and customers for the features we develop.
• Mentor junior developers as we grow the team.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Experience in container technologies like docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience working with datastores such as: Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or Kafka.
• Experience in automation testing frameworks like Junit, Mockito, Spring Test, Cypress.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving techniques.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with functional reactive programming paradigm like Project Reactor.
• Experience with C++, GoLang.

Job Details

Job Title: Backend Software Developer (m,w,x)

Job ID: 10201

Location: Germany

Work arrangement: Hybrid

Area of work: Software Engineering

Employment type: Regular

Position type: Professional

No Travel

Company: IBM

Shift: General (daytime)