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Senior Fullstack Developer

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering
Heredia Province, Heredia, Costa Rica
Posted on Jan 3, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their data and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Snowflake you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities
  • Lead the design and delivery of full-stack, data-driven applications, balancing frontend, backend, and data platform concerns.
  • Own technical solution design across the stack, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability in client environments.
  • Act as a technical lead within Agile teams, guiding implementation, prioritization, and execution across sprints.
  • Design and oversee backend services and APIs that integrate with relational databases and cloud data platforms such as Snowflake.
  • Guide data access patterns, SQL design, and performance considerations for application and analytics use cases.
  • Serve as a technical point of contact for clients, translating business requirements into clear technical direction and trade-offs.
  • Review code, enforce engineering standards, and mentor junior and mid-level developers.
  • Identify and resolve complex technical issues across the stack, including data modeling, query performance, and system integration challenges.
  • Collaborate closely with product, design, data engineering, and cloud teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.
  • Contribute to technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and client-facing technical deliverables.
  • Drive adoption of best practices in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data-centric application design.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software development, with hands-on full-stack experience and technical leadership responsibilities.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or Java).
  • Proven experience designing and building scalable frontend and backend systems.
  • Strong SQL expertise and experience designing data access layers for applications.
  • Hands-on experience integrating applications with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms.
  • Solid understanding of software architecture principles, system design, and common design patterns.
  • Experience leading development efforts in Agile environments (Scrum or Kanban).
  • Strong experience with RESTful API design, integration patterns, and service-oriented architectures.
  • Proficiency with Git and modern collaborative development workflows.
  • Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and deployment concepts.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and accountability for delivery quality and timelines.
  • Advanced english level
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience in consulting environments, including client interaction, solution estimation, and technical decision-making under constraints.
  • Deep familiarity with Snowflake features, performance considerations, and data modeling patterns.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and deployment automation.
  • Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js, Angular) and frontend architecture.
  • Understanding of data governance, data quality, lineage, or data centric systems.
  • Knowledge of application security best practices and secure API design.
  • Experience with performance monitoring, logging, and observability tools.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
  • Relevant cloud or platform certifications are a plus.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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.

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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