Junior Full-stack Developer

IBM

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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

You don’t need a decade of experience to join us - you need solid Java fundamentals, curiosity, and the drive to grow fast. At IBM Consulting, you’ll work on real backend and frontend projects alongside people who genuinely want to help you level up.

How you’ll make an impact:

  • Build and maintain Java backend services using Jakarta EE, Spring, Spring Boot, or Quarkus - real code, real impact
  • Contribute to frontend development - Angular, React, or Vue.js depending on the project
  • Design and expose RESTful APIs - and connect them to the UI
  • Debug and troubleshoot issues - with guidance from seniors who’ve been there before
  • Write clean, maintainable code - and participate in code reviews to sharpen your craft
  • Work in an Agile environment (Scrum or Kanban) - sprints, standups, and all the good stuff

In line with applicable pay transparency requirements, we are sharing the annual base pay range (gross per year). These amounts are based on a full-time schedule over a full calendar year.

The final offer may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, and experience, as permitted under applicable local law.

At IBM, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes

o Opportunities for personal and career development

o Additional paid time off

o Comprehensive health coverage, including critical illness, life, and disability insurance, plus access to a medical center

o 100% paid sick leave for up to 60 days

o MultiSport card

o Exclusive IBM discounts on sports, travel, cultural activities, shopping, health, beauty, and dining

If you are successfully selected for offer, we will share the full details of the compensation package and benefits with the offer letter.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

What makes you a great fit:

  • 1+ year of Java experience with solid Java SE (Java 8+) fundamentals and OOP principles – internships and academic projects count
  • Jakarta EE, Spring, Spring Boot, or Quarkus – hands-on experience (even basic) with at least one of these is a must, as this is our core stack
  • Familiarity with REST/SOAP concepts and basic API design
  • Basic frontend skills – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or experience with Angular, React, or Vue.js
  • Some exposure to microservices concepts, containers and tools like Docker or Kubernetes
  • Basic SQL and experience with relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle
  • Familiarity with Git and build tools like Maven or Gradle

Your vibe:

  • You’re hungry to learn and not afraid to ask questions
  • You communicate well and enjoy working in a team
  • You take ownership, pay attention to detail, and care about doing things right

AI-assisted development:

  • Open to using AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) to speed up your learning and development
  • Understands that AI is a tool to support your work, not a replacement for understanding, you verify what it produces

Bonus points for:

  • German language skills – a real plus on our international projects
  • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
  • Interest in Event-Driven Architecture using Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Proficiency in Scripting Languages: Exposure to scripting languages such as Ruby or Groovy for web development, enhancing application functionality and user experience. • Knowledge of Data Access Frameworks: Familiarity with data access frameworks, enabling efficient data management and integration in enterprise applications. • Understanding of Batch Processing: Exposure to batch processing concepts and techniques, facilitating efficient data processing and system integration.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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