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We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM Middleware team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

The JBoss Sustaining Engineering Team is seeking a software engineer to help contribute to the development of several Java components that make up Red Hat's Runtime offerings, mainly but not limited to Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. In this role, you will build solutions for customer requirements and bugs to improve the quality of the products. Communicating with support, core, quality and product engineers is essential in achieving this goal.

You will work in a collaborative, distributed environment, communication with support, core and product engineers is essential in achieving this goal. Your code will be reviewed by different senior engineers which gives you a great opportunity to learn a lot about the Java ecosystem and your code quality.

Not only will you find yourself encountering the entire spectrum of technologies that Jakarta EE offers, for example:

EJB container
Web container
Transaction Manager

You will also be contributing your solutions to our Open Source JBoss projects:

WildFly
Hibernate
Narayana
Smallrye
and others

Come prepared to be proactive, self-motivated, and work in a collaborative, distributed environment.

Your responsibilities will be to:

Be responsible for developing and maintaining mainly JBoss EAP code, including:
- Backport already developed improvements and fixes
- Develop solutions to improve quality mainly of JBoss EAP and its components
- Maintain and write unit and integration tests where necessary

● Conduct analysis of root causes of problems

● Be effective working in a collaborative, distributed environment across different time zones

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Advanced Java programming experience, including understanding of Java memory model, SSL/TLS clustering and network concepts, and
Experience with development of Java EE applications
Advanced experience with Maven and Git, including developing Maven dependencies and child projects
A positive attitude and desire to share ideas openly
Proven ability to work autonomously
Excellent communication skills at all levels across the business

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with testing (Junit, TestNG) at least on unit-test level
Practical experience with scripting (Bash, Python)
Experience deploying Java EE applications in Kubernetes

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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.

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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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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 50 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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