Front End Developer
Research Triangle Park, USA IT development
Job description
In this role, you will be developing components of a high performing website leveraging the latest front end development methodologies, tools and techniques. You will be instrumental in bringing industry-defining software products, cloud services and web applications to users around the world and make a global impact by delivering innovative user experiences.
Responsibilities will include:
· Producing solutions that excel at performance, reliability and web scalability
· Complete coding, testing, defect fixes, and production support, using agile CI/CD methodologies
· Analyzing current code and existing design with the goal of enacting improvements geared towards making components and processes more efficient for the entire team
· Planning iterations and representing accomplishments at team scrums
· Presenting individual and team status during weekly playbacks or on management calls
· Managing risks and resolving issues that affect scope, schedule, and quality
· Effectively leveraging build, deployment and monitoring/logging tools such as Travis and Jenkins
Auto req ID
267617BR
Required Education
High School Diploma/GED
Role ( Job Role )
Software Developer
State / Province
NORTH CAROLINA
Primary job category
Software Development & Support
Company
(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
Contract type
Regular
Employment Type
Full-Time
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No
Travel Required
Up to 10% or 1 day a week
IBM Business Group
Cognitive Apps
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
City / Township / Village
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK
Being You @ IBM
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, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
The following technical and professional expertise is required:
· Knowledge of HTML5 and Semantic HTML, JavaScript, CSS3, CSS-extension languages like Less & Sass (SCSS), TypeScript a plus
· Using popular front end frameworks like React, Vue, AngularJS, Angular, Ember.js etc
· Creating responsive UIs and implementing zero-data designs
· Knowledge of CSS Grid & Flexbox
· Measuring performance and optimizing front-end applications using tools like Lighthouse, Sitespeed.io
· Working with automated testing frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Karma, Jest, Selenium/Webdriver, Phantom/Slimer and services such as Sauce Labs and BrowserStack
· Bundling and optimizing code using tools like webpack
· Writing code that performs partial page updates, and makes requests to APIs using AJAX or fetch
· Knowledge of cross-browsers compatibility. Familiarity with CanIUse, modernizr and polyfills.
Country/Region
United States
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
The following technical and professional expertise is preferred and will greatly enhance your success on the team:
· With component frameworks like Carbon and Material Design Lite (MDL) a plus
· Knowledge of webSockets, web workers and NodeJS
· Experience with server-side rendering and writing/using isomorphic code/libraries
· Creating fault-tolerant and resilient applications
· Experience with GraphQL, gRPC and libraries like Apollo
· Working in a high-performance, continuous delivery environment with tools like TravisCI, Jenkins
· Using templating libraries and formats like Handlebars and JSX
· Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Secondary Job Category
Other Software Development & Support
Eligibility Requirements
none
Position Type
Professional
Early Professional Track
Not Applicable - Professional Hire
Location Statement
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
New Collar Role
Yes
Introduction
The IBM Cognitive Applications team is seeking innovative and enthusiastic software engineering professionals to join our team building the next generation multicloud marketplace platform. If you love working with cutting edge technologies, dynamic and high performing teams, then this is the right next step in advancing your career. You will be challenged to design and develop cloud applications and services leveraging a wide variety of open source, machine learning, and commercial technologies aimed at dramatically expanding the reach of the IBM Cloud to millions of enterprise developers. Our focus on delivering performance and predictability for our customers' most demanding workloads, at global scale and with leadership, efficiency, resiliency and security is the cornerstone of our development model and will result in maintaining IBM's leadership position for years to come.
Your Life @ IBM
What matters to you when you're looking for your next career challenge?
Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world. What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.
Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.
About Business Unit
At IBM Cognitive Applications, we build open applications that unlock the power of data for clients, partners, and developers. Running on top of IBM's unique Hybrid, Multicloud and AI infrastructures, these applications work across horizontal domains and bring our technology to life for end users. Cognitive Applications unit includes: Watson Customer Engagement, Watson IoT, Watson Media and Weather, Talent & Collaboration, and IBM Developer teams
About IBM
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