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Senior Software Development Engineer

IBM

Software Engineering

Dublin, Ireland

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

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Introduction

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 seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Development Engineer to join our dynamic and growing team. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned software developer with a passion for technology, problem-solving, and driving software development processes. You will get to lead technical initiatives, and mentor junior engineers while delivering high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.

Your role and responsibilities

Develop cloud-native services to address both new and ongoing business challenges and meet customer needs.
* Own end-to-end feature development, from concept through design to production, collaborating with product managers and engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.
* 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.
* Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring that systems scale efficiently and perform well under varying loads.
* Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

* Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field, or relevant work experience.
* 5+ years of professional software development experience in designing and building enterprise-level applications
* 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.

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 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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