Graduate Software Developer

Develop, test, and maintain enterprise storage software for IBM FlashSystem while working in Agile teams and learning modern software engineering practices.

Introduction

Data storage is at the heart of everything we do in life. From every photo to every financial transaction, data is generated and stored somewhere in the world, be it on a customer’s own premises or in the cloud. The FlashSystem team at IBM Hursley creates resilient, high-performance and intelligent storage software that keeps business-critical systems and data available 24/7. 

Our success comes down to one thing: our people. We’re hiring and looking for people with a passion to learn and contribute to the success of the FlashSystem products.

You will be joining the FlashSystem engineering team as a Graduate Software Engineer, where you will develop your software engineering and problem-solving skills while learning new technologies and working with mentors and teams within the Storage organisation. The team has commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, where different thinking styles are valued for the strength and innovation they bring to teams.

IBM FlashSystem delivers high-performance, highly-functional solutions that make hybrid cloud storage simple for every enterprise, from hospitals to data centres. For businesses to improve their levels of insight and accuracy, analytics and AI applications are consuming enormous amounts of data.

Managing, moving and storing large data volumes with efficiency and performance requires a modern IT infrastructure with wide-ranging capabilities – from data reduction to enterprise-grade business continuity features such as ransomware detection/recovery and replication. The IBM FlashSystem family of data storage solutions is designed to meet all these needs while reducing costs and complexity.

IBM FlashSystem combines the performance of flash and a Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)-optimised architecture with the IBM FlashCore technology and IBM Storage Virtualize software.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Software Developer: Generalist, you will design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Develop Software Solutions: Design, code, and test component-level software solutions, ensuring they are unit tested and ready for integration into products.

• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work in an Agile environment to understand stakeholder requirements and deliver solutions that meet their needs.

• Debug Customer Issues: Design, develop, and unit test code fixes for customer-reported problems.

• Contribute to CI/CD Pipeline: Participate in the development of an automated CI/CD pipeline that takes code through various quality stages.

• Deliver Offerings: Test and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.

• Develop code and solutions using the latest enterprise-level tools.

• Collaborate with a squad of 6-8 engineers to design, develop, test, and maintain high quality software for which you feel a strong sense of ownership.

• Use technologies and industry-standard tools such as C, Java, Python, Git, Jenkins, and Docker

• Learn from our team of 100+ IBM Storage developers in Hursley, plus hundreds more worldwide, to become an expert in our product.

• Work onsite in Hursley for team collaboration and hands-on work with our products

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Passion for software engineering, which can be shown from experience in professional projects, experience from education projects or experience from projects completed in your personal time.

• Ability to solve problems alone and as part of a team.

• Effective communication skills to explain technical problems and solutions to other engineers.

• Innovative solutions to problems.

• Attention to detail.

• A direct and honest approach.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Front-End Development Skills: Exposure to designing, developing, testing, and delivering front-end components of software applications using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.

• DevOps Engineering Knowledge: Familiarity with DevOps engineering practices and tools, contributing to the development of automated CI/CD pipelines.

• L3 Support Engineering: Exposure to L3 support engineering, debugging customer-reported problems, and designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio  designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.