Confluent - Senior Software Engineer

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Software Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Posted on Aug 11, 2026
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

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer interested in building engaging and insightful products for managing and visualising large scale distributed real-time data streams. Data flow is central to how companies operate, and we aim to make that experience intuitive and attractive. As a Front-End Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating new visualisations and interfaces that scale with Apache Kafka.

More about our stack:

Our Cloud UI stack is written in Typescript and built based on React.

The UI connects to multiple REST and GraphQL APIs.

We unit test our code with Jest.

We deploy the UI to production every day, with the ability to test each and every commit in production (even PRs) before it goes live.

Feature flags unblock us from coordinating releases with backend teams

Bots keep all of our dependencies up to date

What You Will Do:

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will build engaging and insightful products for managing and visualizing large scale distributed data streams, make data flow intuitive and attractive, and build client-side web applications for data-intensive applications.

You will:

Build new features using advanced knowledge based on user requirements and make revisions to features based on feedback

Build platform as a service (PaaS) product

Take user requirements and vet the application program interface (API) contracts and user interface (UI) wireframes against them.

Work with backend software engineers to understand the API contract and ensure the user experience is not degraded due to performance constraints from the backend APIs.

Work with designers to understand and build components styling, from interactions to specification.

Work with product managers to build a user experience.

Build out a test plan and get sign-off from all stakeholders once development and testing has been completed.

Write, monitor, and manage large scale system deployments.

Triage Cloud incidents and monitor errors from Confluent's Javascript monitoring service.

Triage bugs and troubleshoot production issues.

Participate in the code review processes.

Write tooling to improve day-to-day workflows.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  1. Strong foundation in Data Structures, Algorithms, and Software Design, with proficiency in JavaScript, Python, C/C++, or Go.
  2. Experience building scalable web applications using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and React.
  3. Hands-on expertise with modern frontend tools including Webpack, Babel, Gulp, and Grunt.
  4. Ready to make an IMPACT -- Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment
  5. Passionate about building large-scale distributed systems and driving innovation with impact.
  6. Self-motivated professional with the ability to own projects and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
  7. Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a strong team-first mindset.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience in performance testing, monitoring, and optimization.
  • Exposure to Agentic AI, AI-powered workflows, and LLM-based applications.
Years of Experience:
4 - 6

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.

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