Java Backend Engineer

"IBM is looking for skilled back-end developers with experience in Java and related technologies to join our existing development team. The candidate should be comfortable working independently, take ownership of assigned tasks, should be open to learn new technologies, have insatiable curiosity and an analytical mindset. The ideal person should be able to  leverage new technology to provide our customers with an excellent experience, while you are working on a diverse team of highly qualified and motivated individuals. This involves solutions capable of processing and analyzing millions of spans, traces, metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base.

Responsibilities
Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks
Design robust modules to support multiple client interfaces
Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud
The management of the entire software development process, from conception to deployment.
Updating and maintaining the software after deployment.
Controlling the whole life cycle of the software and application development process.
Overseeing and directing the evaluation, creation, and implementation of software.
Directing the automated testing and giving management input as the project is being developed.
Modifying existing programs and testing the modifications.
Troubleshooting and fixing bugs and other coding issues.
Good knowledge about reactive systems based on Java, specifically RX, Reactor, Reactive-Streams
Understanding of and experience with message-processing based on Apache Kafka
Good code-writing discipline"