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Java Backend Developer

IBM

2 - 5 years

Kochi, Alappuzha

Posted: 11/06/2026

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Job Description

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Back-End Developer Generalist, you will work in an agile, collaborative environment across software architecture, understanding both front-end and back-end concerns, while specializing in the back-end. You will develop using object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and concurrency, and implement industry standards and best practices for database security. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Develop RESTful APIs and Web Services: Design and construct RESTful APIs and web services, ensuring seamless integration with front-end applications and meeting system requirements. • Plan and Construct Databases: Analyze, design, and build databases, considering user and system requirements, and adhering to industry standards for database security. • Implement Database Queries: Write structured query language (SQL) queries, back-end database stored procedures, or NoSQL queries to efficiently manage and retrieve data. • Apply Object-Oriented Programming: Utilize object-oriented programming principles, multi-threading, and concurrency to develop scalable and efficient back-end solutions. • Ensure Database Security: Analyze and define database and information security requirements, implementing industry standards and best practices to safeguard sensitive data.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Agile Development: Familiarity with working in agile, collaborative environments, understanding both front-end and back-end concerns, with a focus on back-end development. • Client-Server Architecture Knowledge: Understanding of client-server architectures, networking protocols, and application development principles. • Database Development Experience: Exposure to planning, analyzing, designing, and constructing databases, including implementing industry standards for database security. • Programming Language Proficiency: Experience working with programming languages such as Ruby, Python, Java, Node.js, and server-side JavaScript. • API Development Skills: Familiarity with developing RESTful APIs and web services, including designing and constructing APIs to meet system requirements.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with Cloud Platforms: Exposure to cloud-based infrastructure and platforms, such as AWS or Azure, can be beneficial for designing and deploying scalable back-end solutions. • Knowledge of Containerization: Understanding containerization using tools like Docker can aid in efficient application deployment and management. • Exposure to DevOps Tools: Familiarity with DevOps tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI can help streamline development, testing, and deployment processes.

Years of Experience:
6 - 9

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.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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 is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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About Company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a leading global technology and consulting company, headquartered in Armonk, New York. With over a century of innovation, IBM provides a wide range of technology solutions and professional services. The company specializes in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, helping organizations digitally transform their operations. IBM’s flagship AI platform, Watson, and its hybrid cloud capabilities are widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing. IBM is known for its strong commitment to research and development, and it consistently ranks among the top organizations for U.S. patents.

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