Senior Backend Engineer

• Category: Software Engineering
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Travel Required: Up to 20% or 1 day a week
• Contract Type: Regular
• Company: IBM Middle East and North Africa RHQ LLC

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong development experience in Java and object-oriented programming
• Strong development experience with REST API development
• Python and similar languages will be an advantage
• Experience working with Linux or Unix based OS
• Working knowledge in Container technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
• Working knowledge on OpenShift
• Experience working with Automation and Integration processes and tools like Jenkins
• Experienced with tools such as GitHub
• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM-based environment
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and writing)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Team management and leadership experience
• Experience with AI & ML Technologies
• Experience with Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Management
• AWS or IBM Cloud expertise
• Awareness or past experience in Big Data technologies, Spark, streaming data
• Track record of open source contributions
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent