IBM Cloud Data Services App Engineer Full-Stack

Overview: We are a dynamic team at the forefront of IBM cloud database solutions, dedicated to delivering exceptional user experiences and seamless integrations. Our App Team plays a crucial role in maintaining and evolving our front-end stack, ensuring top-notch UX across various components.

Job Type: Full-Time

About the Role: As a developer on the App Team, you'll work across multiple customer-facing touchpoints for IBM Cloud Databases - including the React UI, Golang API, CLI, and Terraform plugins. You are expected to build and evolve our JavaScript front end and Golang backend, while also contributing to our Jenkins-based tooling.

This is a hands-on engineering role that requires you to write production-grade code in JavaScript (React) primarily with opportunities to grow into Golang if you're not already familiar. Our mission is to provide a consistent and intuitive experience across all the ways our customers interact with their databases. You will collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders including developers, designers, product managers, and customer support to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Design, build, and maintain features in our React-based UI for database management.

  
  
  

• Write and maintain Golang APIs that power the frontend and integrate with underlying data services.

  
  
  

• Contribute to the Golang-based CLI and Terraform providers, ensuring a consistent user experience across all interfaces.

  
  
  

• Write automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end) to ensure quality and reliability.

  
  
  

• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning.

  
  
  

• Work with design, product, and support teams to ship features that address real customer needs.

  
  
  

• Help identify and resolve performance issues, bugs, and production incidents.

  
  
  

• Rotate through on-call responsibilities to gain real-world exposure to how customers interact with our platform.

  
  
  

Overview: We are a dynamic team at the forefront of IBM cloud database solutions, dedicated to delivering exceptional user experiences and seamless integrations. Our App Team plays a crucial role in maintaining and evolving our front-end stack, ensuring top-notch UX across various components.

Job Type: Full-Time

About the Role: As a developer on the App Team, you'll work across multiple customer-facing touchpoints for IBM Cloud Databases - including the React UI, Golang API, CLI, and Terraform plugins. You are expected to build and evolve our JavaScript front end and Golang backend, while also contributing to our Jenkins-based tooling.

This is a hands-on engineering role that requires you to write production-grade code in JavaScript (React) primarily with opportunities to grow into Golang if you're not already familiar. Our mission is to provide a consistent and intuitive experience across all the ways our customers interact with their databases. You will collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders including developers, designers, product managers, and customer support to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Design, build, and maintain features in our React-based UI for database management.

  
  
  

• Write and maintain Golang APIs that power the frontend and integrate with underlying data services.

  
  
  

• Contribute to the Golang-based CLI and Terraform providers, ensuring a consistent user experience across all interfaces.

  
  
  

• Write automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end) to ensure quality and reliability.

  
  
  

• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning.

  
  
  

• Work with design, product, and support teams to ship features that address real customer needs.

  
  
  

• Help identify and resolve performance issues, bugs, and production incidents.

  
  
  

• Rotate through on-call responsibilities to gain real-world exposure to how customers interact with our platform.

  
  
  

This job requires a minimum of 6 to 10 years of over all experience and 4-5 years of full stack development.

• minimum of 4-5+ years of Full stack development experience.

  
  
  

• Passion for writing excellent, well-tested, and beautiful code.

  
  
  

• Experience with Node.js, JavaScript frameworks (ReactJS preferred)

  
  
  

• Experience with CLI and Terraform is a Plus

  
  
  

• Experience with Golang, with a focus on building and maintaining API components is desired.

  
  
  

• Strong understanding and expertise in at least one technical domain.

  
  
  

• Proficiency in developing, testing, and maintaining scalable user interfaces and REST API services.

  
  
  

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployment practices, and Kubernetes environments.

  
  
  

• Knowledge of OWASP best practices and vulnerability management.

  
  
  

• Experience with integration testing and end-to-end (E2E) testing.

  
  
  

• Strong design skills are a plus

  
  
  

• Prior experience in a similar role within a development organization preferably cloud based.

  
  
  

• Familiarity with Playwright, Nightwatch or Cypruss test tooling

  
  
  

• Familiarity with accessibility guidelines and writing accessible frontend components a plus
  

  
  
  

  Soft Skills:

  
  
  

• Strong problem-solving skills.

  
  
  

• Strong communication skills to interact with various stakeholders.

  
  
  

• Ability to work collaboratively with a small cross-functional team of engineers, PMs, designers, and researchers.

  
  
  

• Empathy for user challenges and focus on building user-centric solutions.

  
  
  

• Ability to scope solutions collaboratively and work comfortably with ambiguity.

  
  
  

• Ability to mentor team members and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

  
  
  

• Enjoy high-visibility work and presenting to stakeholders.

  
  
  

• Comfortable working in an agile, fast paced environment.

  
  
  

• Passion for following the latest developments in the open-source community and front-end technologies.

  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

  
  
  

What We Offer:

• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.

  
  
  

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

  
  
  

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

  
  
  

• The chance to work with cutting-edge technology and innovative projects.

  
  
  

Preferred Skills (Good to Have):

• Good knowledge of at least one majorcloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience withIaaS components such asVPC,Storage, andIAM.

  
  
  

• Experience withPostgreSQL,Kafka,Elastic,MySQL,Redis, orMongoDB.

  
  
  

• Experience withservice dependency management usingTerraform orAnsible.

  
  
  

• Good knowledge of writing effective unit testcase inGOLANG.

  
  
  

We offer a dynamic and collaborative environment with a"You build it, You run it" culture. You will join afollow-the-sun rotation, taking ownership of system alerts and using your troubleshooting and analytical skills to resolve issues.