Confluent - Senior Software Developer - Kafka

IBM; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is hiring a Software Developer: Generalist to design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading-edge technologies in an Agile setting. You’ll work in a collaborative team to understand stakeholder requirements and contribute to innovative software solutions.

Your role includes developing component-level solutions, contributing to CI/CD pipelines, debugging customer-reported problems, delivering offerings, and collaborating in an Agile environment to meet expectations.

Qualifications

• Experience with back-end development across design, development, testing and delivery using leading-edge or proven technologies.
• Exposure to component-level solution design, coding and testing for product readiness.
• Experience with automated CI/CD pipelines, code quality and seamless integration/delivery.
• Experience debugging customer-reported problems, designing and unit testing fixes with stakeholder collaboration.
• Experience working in an Agile, collaborative environment and aligning with team goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop Component-Level Solutions: Design, code, and test innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring unit testing and readiness for product integration.
• Contribute to CI/CD Pipeline: Contribute to automated CI/CD pipelines and ensure seamless integration and delivery.
• Debug Customer-Reported Problems: Design, develop, and unit test fixes for customer-reported problems with stakeholder collaboration.
• Deliver Offerings: Deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies in close collaboration with stakeholders.
• Collaborate in Agile Environment: Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and align with team goals.

Skills

Back-End Development

Component-Level Solution Development

CI/CD Pipeline Contribution

Debugging and Problem-Solving

Agile Environment Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

DevOps Engineering

Front-End Development

L3 Support Engineering

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Software Developer: Generalist, you will design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Develop Component-Level Solutions: Design, code, and test innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring that the implemented solutions are unit tested and ready to be integrated into their product.


• Contribute to CI/CD Pipeline: Contribute to the automated CI/CD pipeline that takes code through various quality stages, ensuring seamless integration and delivery.


• Debug Customer-Reported Problems: Design, develop, and unit test code fixes for customer-reported problems, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.


• Deliver Offerings: Deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies, working closely with stakeholders to meet requirements and expectations.


• Collaborate in Agile Environment: Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements, aligning with team goals and objectives.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Back-End Development: Experience working with back-end development technologies, designing, developing, testing, and delivering offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.


• Component-Level Solution Development: Exposure to designing, coding, and testing innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring unit testing and readiness for integration into products.


• CI/CD Pipeline Contribution: Experience working with automated CI/CD pipelines, contributing to code quality stages, and ensuring seamless integration and delivery.


• Debugging and Problem-Solving: Exposure to debugging customer-reported problems, designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes, and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.


• Agile Environment Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile, collaborative environment, understanding stakeholder requirements, and aligning with team goals and objectives.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• L3 Support Engineering: Exposure to L3 support engineering practices, including designing, developing, and testing solutions to resolve complex customer-reported problems.


• DevOps Engineering: Experience working with DevOps engineering principles, contributing to the automated CI/CD pipeline, and ensuring seamless integration and delivery.


• Front-End Development: Exposure to front-end development technologies, designing, developing, testing, and delivering offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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?

ABOUT IBM

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 500 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job‑related skills and experience for this position.