Job Description

Application Lead

* Country:US
* State:CALIFORNIA
* City:San Jose
* Category:Software Development & Support
* Required Education:High School Diploma/GED
* Position Type:Professional
* Employment Type:Full-Time
* Contract Type:Regular
* Company:(0147) International Business Machines Corporation
* Req ID:346471BR
* Travel Required:No Travel
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* Location:San Jose, CA US

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Introduction
Revolutionize the genomics industry!

We are launching a stealth start-up created to manage bioinformatic computations at scale. Financially backed and operationally supported by IBM, this start-up is well positioned to transform the way biotech, pharma, and research organizations discover insights and breakthroughs.

What We Offer:

We offer a competitive performance-driven compensation package, autonomy to shape the direction of this initiative, and opportunity for career advancement.
You will enter a highly motivated team, coming from different disciplines and walks of life. We believe great teams bring great ideas to life. We value proactive team members with a strong sense of ownership, people who are able to imagine the world they want to live in and are ready to solve any problem to make it happen.
You'll get the exciting opportunity to join us and shape our initiative's future from the beginning.

Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for an exceptional Applications Lead.

Overseeing team development of user experience as embodied in web app application and microservice APIs, you will be the primary owner of the web app enabling users to manage their data and computation plans, and the microservices that feed that web app.

Responsibilities include:

* Lead development of web apps (framework experience using Angular and Node).
* Perform extensive hands-on coding (team collaboration, front-end development).
* Collaborate closely with product, design, and front-end teams to implement new features and drive customer acquisitions.
* Contribute to a high-quality performance code base, further improving the code base through writing unit tests, automation, and code reviews.
* Build scalable and testable software using modern technologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
* 3+ years of Angular and Node programming expertise.
* Experience with microservices and Kubernetes.
* Professional background with architecture and building scalable applications.
* Web application development experience.
* Hands-on development and delivery expertise with a broad mix of languages and technologies.
* Real passion for solving customer frictions through simple and effective software.
* Strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment.
* Experience working with Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery approaches, such as Continuous Integration, TDD etc.

COVID-19 Consideration: The safety of our employees, both current and future, is IBMs highest priority. Candidates who are selected for this position will be trained remotely and must be able to work from home in a designated work area with company-provided technology equipment. Once IBM determines employees can return to the office safely, this role requires on-site attendance at our San Jose location.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
* Experience leading an engineering team.
* Expertise implementing technical web apps such as cloud portals.
* Professional background in data visualization, statistics, or bioinformatics is a plus.

About Business Unit
With more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents, IBM Research brings together hundreds of researchers who possess unparalleled industry expertise to address some of the world's most challenging problems. Join us as we do pioneering work in areas such as cognitive computing, augmented intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain, to name a few.

Your Life @ IBM
What matters to you when youre 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 IBM
IBMs greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

Location Statement
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

IBM intends this job to be performed entirely outside of Colorado.

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, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.