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IBM Staff Software Development Engineer in Mulhuddart, Ireland
Introduction
Are you a software engineer with a passion for building scalable micro-services that handle massive amounts of data and form the backbone of customer-facing managed services?
At IBM Cloudability, we deliver a best-in-class FinOps platform that helps customers enable their IT, finance, and DevOps teams to work together to optimize cloud resources for speed, cost, and quality. We are looking for a talented and experienced Staff Software Development Engineer to join our dynamic and growing team. As a Staff Software Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable software solutions. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products. You will be expected to contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from initial planning to production deployment, ensuring robust performance and reliability
Your role and responsibilities
Develop cloud-native services to address both new and ongoing business challenges and meet customer needs.
Lead and shape the team’s technical vision and system architecture.
Own end-to-end feature development, from concept through design to production, collaborating with product managers and engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.
Explore and analyze complex architectures, researching and implementing new technologies to solve challenging problems.
Drive the adoption of best practices for software development, including testing, code reviews, and continuous integration, to ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable software.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.
Required technical and professional expertise
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or relevant work experience.
8+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex software systems.
Extensive professional knowledge, experience, and understanding of at least one modern programming language, such Java, Scala, and Go.
Extensive experience with software engineering principles, including data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
Hands-on experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Preferred technical and professional experience
Master’s degree in computer science or related field.
Experience in modern software concepts such as Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
Experienced with modern API design and implementations, preferably in Java or Golang.
Experienced in Cloud infrastructure’s cost management or FinOps.
Experience using monitoring tools like Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
Exceptional customer focus, ownership, and drive.
Demonstrated capability to provide depth and breadth technical leadership.