**Introduction** "Introduction Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives to design, code, test, and provide industry-leading solutions that make the world run today - planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe because of the work our software developers do. Whether you are working on projects internally or for a client, software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of. **Your role and responsibilities** Your Role and Responsibilities Data and AI Development team is looking for enthusiastic and talented Backend development Engineer to join us. Our services belong to Match360 product portfolio. Our services are tightly integrated with IBM Cloud Pak for Data where customers can access a suite of leading data and AI capabilities in a unified experience. You are a Backend Developer, who will Design, develop and/or re-engineer complex product components, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable objects residing on multiple platforms. As an ambitious individual who can work under senior architect’s direction towards agreed targets and goals, you have the ability to manage change and to work under stress. You are curious to learn as demonstrated by your up-to-date technical knowledge. You are a good team player and you are familiar with Agile methodologies and principles and/or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, fun, spirited, collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team. Job Responsibilities: Responsible for analyzing the performance aspects of Cloud based application running on Microservice architecture. Good knowledge of System internals, System Performance which helps driving deep dive analysis on performance bottlenecks, providing fixes or workarounds. Strong data analysis skills to identify performance trends from large data sets and the technical bent to investigate anomalies. Support architecture/design for better performance and reliability. Understanding of modern NFR testing techniques, especially performance testing (Load, stress, stability, baseline testing, Saturation point, Load models, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Continuous NFR testing, CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates). Workload modelling and capacity studies to predict infrastructure requirements, growth projections for compute (cpu/memory), storage, IO and network." **Required technical and professional expertise** "5+ years of professional/industrial experience in software development & analysing the performance aspects of Cloud based application running on Micro service architecture . Good knowledge of System internals, System Performance which helps driving deep dive analysis on performance bottlenecks, providing fixes or workarounds. Strong data analysis skills to identify performance trends from large data sets and the technical bent to investigate anomalies. Support architecture/design for better performance and reliability. Understanding of modern NFR testing techniques, especially performance testing (Load, stress, stability, baseline testing, Saturation point, Load models, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Continuous NFR testing, CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates). Workload modelling and capacity studies to predict infrastructure requirements, growth projections for compute (cpu/memory), storage, IO and network. Expertise in Core Java, Java J2EE, , MicroServices Architecture. Expertise in Building Restful API, SDK APIs using different frameworks. Experience writing / executing Unit Tests and REST API automation with RestAssured. Should have experience in JSP, Servlets, XML and JSON, Ant. Knowledge of database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL and Graph Databases. Experience in using messaging brokers like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc. Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP etc." **Preferred technical and professional experience** "Degree in Computer Science Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. Working experience on Docker/Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, Linux Operating Systems (such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.) , the DevOps Experience working with open-source technologies."