Staff Software Engineer - Confluent Business Technology

IBM

Boston, MA

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Best Practices, Billing, Business Architecture, Business-to-Business (B2B), Cloud Computing, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Structures, Distributed Computing, Engineering, Expense Management, Finance, Forecasting, IBM Product Family, Identify Issues, Internet Application, Java, Leadership, Mentoring, Microservices, Performance Engineering, Performance Management, Performance Testing, PostgreSQL, Pricing, Problem Solving Skills, Productivity Management, React.js, Relational Databases (RDBMS), Reliability Engineering, Revenue Forecasting, Sales Tools, Salesforce.com, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, System Integration (SI), Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)

LOCATION

Boston, MA

POSTED

1 day ago

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. With Confluent, data doesn't sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

Your role and responsibilities

About Team
The Business Technology team builds the internal applications that act as Confluent's central nervous system for revenue, forecasting, and operational efficiency. We deliver strategic internal web applications that power deal lifecycle workflows, quoting, pricing and tiering, and planning tools used by Sales, Finance, and Customer teams.
Our products enable data driven decision making before resources are committed, helping stakeholders plan proactively, optimize usage, and manage spend with confidence. The team focuses on high business impact internal-facing applications with mission critical outcomes for growth, efficiency, and scale.
About the Role
We are seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to shape architecture, influence cross functional partners, and drive open ended initiatives across teams. You will own the end to end design and delivery of complex systems, identify high leverage problems, and set patterns that other engineers follow.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving real business problems with pragmatic, maintainable solutions more than building at massive consumer scale, and who can operate comfortably from hands-on implementation through technical strategy and stakeholder leadership.
What You'll Do
● Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high impact internal web applications that support deal lifecycle, pricing and quoting, forecasting, and planning workflows.
● Own complex, cross team technical initiatives from problem framing through design, implementation, rollout, and long term evolution.
● Identify and drive high leverage technical investments that improve reliability, performance, developer velocity, and user experience across multiple applications and services.
● Design and evolve microservices, APIs, and data models that integrate with systems such as Salesforce, billing, data platforms, and analytics, ensuring robust contracts and clear boundaries.
● Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies, roadmaps, and deliverables over multi quarter horizons.
● Provide technical leadership and mentoring for senior and mid level engineers, raising the bar on design quality, code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team.
● Champion engineering best practices including testing, performance engineering, incident readiness, and secure coding, and ensure they are consistently applied in your area of ownership.
● Collaborate with peer teams to define cohesive end to end solutions and shared platforms rather than point integrations.
● Contribute to and help refine the technical strategy, architecture principles, and career standards for the Commit Estimator and broader Application & AI Engineering domains.
● Contribute to modernize the existing application and platform for scalability, availability, speed of delivering software and enabling AI capabilities for End Users .

Required technical and professional expertise

* 12+ years of software engineering experience, including technical architecture for complex, business-critical systems.
* Strong full stack expertise (Go, Java, APIs/services, React or similar front ends) with solid foundations in system design and data structures.
* Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and distributed systems technologies like Kafka or messaging/event streaming.
* Proven ability to design and deliver scalable internal/B2B applications, breaking down complex problems into clear solutions across multi-quarter initiatives.
* Cloud-native experience (AWS, containers, CI/CD, observability) with a track record of improving developer productivity, operational excellence, and mentoring teams.

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Familiarity with IBM-Confluent Products and Services.
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, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

About the Company

IBM

At IBM, you don’t need a degree to shape the future. Just bring your skills—and your passion. To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate.

Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Let’s get to work.

COMPANY SIZE

10,000 employees or more

INDUSTRY

Computer/IT Services

FOUNDED

1911

WEBSITE

http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/

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