Senior Full-stack Developer

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Apr 15, 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 hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, 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

You’ve shipped production Java code, you know your frameworks inside out, and you’re ready to own architectural decisions – not just implement them. At IBM Consulting, you’ll work on complex full-stack systems, have a real say in how they’re built, and push them to the cloud.

How you’ll make an impact:

  • Lead the design and end-to-end development of Java applications and modern cloud‑native patterns using Jakarta EE, Spring, Spring Boot, or Quarkus
  • Contribute across the full stack, from backend services to frontend components in Angular, React, or Vue.js
  • Drive architecture discussions focused on scalability, reliability, and long‑term maintainability
  • Design and deploy solutions on IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Improve existing systems, reduce technical debt, and modernize legacy components
  • Shape CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
  • Mentor teammates, contribute to coding standards, and influence technical strategy

Why join us:

  • Real influence over architecture, tooling, and engineering practices
  • Opportunities to grow into roles such as Lead Developer or Solution Architect
  • Work on diverse international projects across multiple industries
  • Remote‑friendly environment and flexible work arrangements where possible
  • Support for learning: certifications, training, conferences, internal communities of practice
  • A sustainable engineering culture that values quality over shortcuts
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

What you bring:

  • 6+ years of Java development with strong Jakarta EE, Spring Boot or Quarkus experience
  • Solid microservices background with Docker or Podman and Kubernetes
  • Strong SQL skills and hands‑on experience with relational databases
  • Full‑stack capability in at least one modern frontend framework
  • Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with OpenAPI
  • Strong communicator who thrives in distributed, collaborative teams
  • Proactive, curious, and comfortable driving technical improvements

Your vibe:

  • Clear and thoughtful communicator
  • Comfortable making architectural recommendations and explaining tradeoffs
  • Self‑driven problem solver who doesn’t wait for instruction
  • Curious, adaptable, and eager to explore new technologies
  • Strong systems thinker who understands how components integrate and evolve over time

AI-assisted development:

  • Actively uses AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) as an integral part of your daily development workflow
  • Able to critically evaluate, refactor, and validate AI-generated code, you know when to trust it and when to push back
  • Leverages AI tools to accelerate design, code review, documentation, and test generation, without losing ownership of quality and architecture
  • Familiar with prompt engineering practices relevant to software development and capable of guiding AI tools toward better outputs

Bonus points for:

  • German language skills – a real advantage on our international projects
  • Experience modernizing legacy applications (Swing, Eclipse RCP)
  • Event‑driven architecture with Kafka or RabbitMQ
  • Performance/load testing or ISTQB certification
Preferred technical and professional experience

• Proficiency in Scripting Languages: Exposure to scripting languages such as Ruby or Groovy for web development, enhancing application functionality and user experience. • Knowledge of Functional Programming: Exposure to applying functional programming principles, improving code efficiency and scalability in application development. • Familiarity with Batch Processing: Exposure to batch processing frameworks and tools, ensuring efficient data processing and system integration.

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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