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

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Java or GoLang in a cloud-native environment.

• Contribute to the evolution of microservices-based architectures and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust, secure, and performant backend functionality.

• Implement backend integration with external systems, APIs, and services.

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend systems for performance and reliability.

• Develop CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure setup using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.

• Participate in peer code reviews, enforce coding standards, and support automated testing strategies.

• Contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, and Agile development best practices.

• Mentor junior developers on technical concepts and tools.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• 6+ years of experience in backend development with expertise in Java, J2EE, and working knowledge of GoLang.

• Strong understanding of designing and consuming RESTful APIs, including versioning, authentication, and documentation.

• Proficient with Postgres or equivalent RDBMS - writing efficient queries, data modeling, and performance optimization.

• Experience with microservices-based architectures and familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments.

• Solid experience working with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.

• Familiar with monitoring/logging frameworks like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.

• Experience deploying applications on AWS (ECS, EKS) or similar cloud platforms.

• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Exposure to DevSecOps practices, including secure development principles and basic compliance awareness.

• Practical experience with testing frameworks like JMeter, JUnit, RestAssured, and SonarQube.

• Ability to contribute to system design discussions, resolve technical challenges, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience designing and implementing reusable backend services and contributing to scalable system designs.

• Working knowledge of API security standards (e.g., OAuth2, JWT) and basic integration with security frameworks (e.g., Spring Security).

• Exposure to cryptographic concepts (FIPS) and protocols (e.g., TLS), with practical implementation experience.

• Understanding of privacy by design and DevSecOps principles in CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with secure coding standards and interest in improving system resilience and threat protection.

• Exposure to event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and message brokers is a plus.

• Ability to write Shell scripts or backend tooling utilities in scripting languages such as Python or Node.js.

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.
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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.
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Job Title
Backend Software Developer - GoLang, Java
Job ID
84685
City / Township / Village
Pune
State / Province
Maharashtra
Country
India
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Software Engineering
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Travel required
No Travel
Company
(0063) IBM India Private Limited
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No

Skills Required