IBM
Website:
i2.co.uk
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ibm
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
Job details:
Introduction
At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.
Your Role And Responsibilities
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer interested in building engaging and insightful products for managing and visualising large scale distributed real-time data streams. Data flow is central to how companies operate, and we aim to make that experience intuitive and attractive. As a Front-End Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating new visualisations and interfaces that scale with Apache Kafka.
More About Our Stack
Our Cloud UI stack is written in Typescript and built based on React.
The UI connects to multiple REST and GraphQL APIs.
We unit test our code with Jest.
We deploy the UI to production every day, with the ability to test each and every commit in production (even PRs) before it goes live.
Feature flags unblock us from coordinating releases with backend teams
Bots keep all of our dependencies up to date
What You Will Do
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will build engaging and insightful products for managing and visualizing large scale distributed data streams, make data flow intuitive and attractive, and build client-side web applications for data-intensive applications.
You Will
Build new features using advanced knowledge based on user requirements and make revisions to features based on feedback
Build platform as a service (PaaS) product
Take user requirements and vet the application program interface (API) contracts and user interface (UI) wireframes against them.
Work with backend software engineers to understand the API contract and ensure the user experience is not degraded due to performance constraints from the backend APIs.
Work with designers to understand and build components styling, from interactions to specification.
Work with product managers to build a user experience.
Build out a test plan and get sign-off from all stakeholders once development and testing has been completed.
Write, monitor, and manage large scale system deployments.
Triage Cloud incidents and monitor errors from Confluent's Javascript monitoring service.
Triage bugs and troubleshoot production issues.
Participate in the code review processes.
Write tooling to improve day-to-day workflows.
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Strong expertise in React.js with hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance web applications.
- Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of modern frontend development practices.
- Experience building scalable web applications using JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and React.
- Hands-on expertise with modern frontend tools including Webpack, Babel, Gulp, and Grunt.
- Ready to make an IMPACT -- Driven and excited about the challenges of a fast-paced, innovative, and quickly growing software development environment
- Passionate about building large-scale distributed systems and driving innovation with impact.
- Self-motivated professional with the ability to own projects and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Experience in performance testing, monitoring, and optimization.
- Exposure to Agentic AI, AI-powered workflows, and LLM-based applications.
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