Sr. Web Engineer I

  • Chicago, IL
  • Posted 13 hours ago | Updated 1 hour ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Network
Management
Scalability
Go-To-Market Strategy
Web Development
Writing
Code Refactoring
Pair Programming
Documentation
Publishing
Leadership
FOCUS
Node.js
API
Database
React.js
TypeScript
Semantics
HTML
Cascading Style Sheets
Testing
JavaScript
Content Management
Workflow
GitHub
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Docker
Amazon Web Services
WCAG
Accessibility
Business Operations
Machine Learning (ML)
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Software Modernization
Sustainability
Data Centers
Innovation
Collaboration
Science
Cloud Computing
IBM SmartCloud
Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Genetics
IBM
Regulatory Compliance
Immigration

Job Details

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

About the Web Presence team

The Web Presence team is a hybrid group of designers and engineers who are responsible for delivering high-quality web experiences that support HashiCorp's go-to-market efforts. This includes various websites like , developer.hashicorp.com , and more. For many of HashiCorp's customers and users, the Web Presence team delivers their first experience with the company, and so it's crucial we set high standards.

We are looking for a senior engineer to join the team behind HashiCorp Developer . This platform serves HashiCorp's practitioner community, enabling them to solve real-world problems and elevate their careers by growing new skill sets and certifying their proficiency. You should possess a strong background in web development and have operated and maintained production systems.

You care about the developer experience, and communicate with humility, curiosity, and kindness. You are comfortable and experienced working collaboratively with other teams. As a team we believe strongly in learning, so while prior experience with our tools of choice isn't strictly necessary, you should be open to learning them.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

  • Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems based on TypeScript, JavaScript, and React.
  • Take ownership of, contribute to and evolve our backend systems and platform tooling in support of project initiatives.
  • Advocate for clean code, refactoring when needed, and understanding trade-offs.
  • Enable your teammates through technical contributions, code reviews, and pair programming.
  • Learn and adhere to best practices, and provide suggestions for improvements, including reviewing and contributing to RFCs and PRDs.
  • Collaborate with product and education engineers to improve their authoring experience of educational content and product documentation. Troubleshoot and support their publishing processes when necessary.
  • Strive for consistency, and advocate for data-driven decisions.
  • Communicate technical opinions and project rationale to other engineers and leadership.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • 8+ years of full-stack development experience, with a focus on the JavaScript ecosystem (Node.js, Express, Next.js) and its related tool chain.
  • Strong expertise in backend and platform-side development, including API design, server-side architecture, and database integration and design.
  • Deep expertise and experience with React.
  • Experience with TypeScript, semantic HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript standards.
  • Demonstrated experience building high-quality web experiences from inception to completion that are accessible, performant, responsive, and scalable.
  • Source code control best practices using GitHub or other similar tools.
  • Understanding of and experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
  • Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind.
  • Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Strong experience working with Next.js and the Vercel platform.
  • Familiarity with content management workflows and tools, including experience working with Markdown transformation pipelines.
  • Experience building custom GitHub Actions or with similar CI/CD platforms.
  • Experience using Docker and container-based deployments.
  • Experience with deploying services and maintaining cloud-hosted services, AWS experience is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of web accessibility standards and inclusive design principles, including a basic understanding of WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility standards.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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.

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ABOUT IBM

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.

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