IBM Hiring for Principal Software Engineer at Andover, MA

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
About the job

IBM Automation Software is looking for Expert Software Developers to join us in US.

In this role, you will bring impactful contributions to the OSS upstream KIE community projects, esp. KIE Tools and collaborate internally with other IBM Business Automation Engineering teams to help guide new features, use cases, and integrations, participating in upstream definition of feature requirements and their implementation. You will act as a leading member of a geographically distributed team, using multiple communication tools for close collaboration. You’ll need to have passion for modern open source development methods, a strong interest in Automation, Cloud and AI, and a desire to apply broad software engineering skills to the best Process & Decision Automation technologies. Successful applicants must reside in a state where IBM is registered to do business.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Participate & contribute your expertise in the design and development of core features of KIE community projects, esp. KIE Tools, and related to Process Automation Management including jBPM, BPMN, Workflow, Drools, Kogito.
• Become a recognized upstream contributor to those KIE community projects.
• Work across functional teams in IBM Automation Software, utilizing a broad skill set to resolve IBM Automation Software dependency and layered product integration & user experience issues.
• Expert troubleshooting and debugging skills within the full stack, covering design time components as well as run time components, and across various technologies and form factors.
• Develop and maintain future generation of Process Automation Manager features.
• Contribute to the delivery of IBM Business Automation platform release cadence.
• Participate in upstream and internal continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Maintain a deep customer base through excellent customer service (esp. when issues are escalated into engineering) and through proactive technical communications and exchanges (blogs, tutorials, conferences, etc).

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8+ years of software development experience in the area of Process and/or Decision Automation.
• Proven expertise in Java development.
• Proven expertise & mastery in one of the following areas and solid experience of 2 others : process automation and decision automation design-time and run-time technologies and standards, business process & task management environment development, business rules management environment development, related authoring technologies, related engine technologies, life-cycle & governance tooling development, symbolic AI, AI applied to process automation.
• Solid experience in compilation technologies, container technologies & tools, REST API, application development on Cloud Platforms, Micro Services, DevOps (Continuous Integration).
• Focus on test-driven development and good knowledge of unit testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Ability to be highly effective as a remote employee on a distributed team and contribute to an inclusive, open, and collaborative workplace.
• Proven communication skills in English with written publications evidence.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Passion for open source software development.
• Experience of AI technologies and applications.
• Solid experience in C++ or Python or Java Script or others.
• Proven experience of very effective collaboration in a global team environment.
• Demonstrated technical leadership & mentoring skills and achievements.

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

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?

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

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 50 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 offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

– Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.