Senior Frontend Engineer - Confluent UX Platform

IBM

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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

The User Experience Platform (UXP) team builds the foundational frontend layer of Confluent Cloud — the shared component templates, cross-cutting user experiences, performant APIs, and patterns that product teams rely on to ship quickly and consistently.

What makes UXP unique is that the team works across the frontend-backend boundary. The core of the work for this role is frontend engineering, with opportunities to collaborate on APIs, platform patterns, and the systems that power Confluent Cloud behind the scenes.

If you are a strong frontend engineer who is open to backend work, UXP offers the chance to flex across the stack while staying focused on building high-quality user experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a frontend engineer within the UXP team, you will be responsible for:

  • Owning cross-cutting frontend concerns that span the Confluent Cloud UI — the work that does not fit within any single product team.
  • Architecting and building shared frameworks, templates, and patterns that product teams adopt to deliver consistent experiences.
  • Partnering with engineering teams and key stakeholders to drive complex technical projects end-to-end.
  • Collaborating across the stack on API contracts, platform patterns, and performance tradeoffs.
  • Identifying and driving technical improvements across performance, code quality, observability, and testing.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

  • Industry experience designing, building, scaling, and supporting frontend systems in production, with a strong foundation in software engineering best practices such as code reviews, testing, and documentation.
  • Strong understanding of JS fundamentals and hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (especially ES6+), React, HTML, CSS, and unit / integration testing frameworks.
  • Experience using agentic development workflows and AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development while maintaining strong engineering judgment and a high bar for code quality.
  • Familiarity with software development tools such as Semaphore CI, LaunchDarkly, Grafana, and Amplitude, and the engineering practices needed to ship, monitor, and iterate on production systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams and stakeholders.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Experience with GraphQL, either as a consumer building frontend integrations or contributing to schema and resolver development.
  • Familiarity with Go, Kubernetes, or similar cloud-native backend tools.
  • Experience working on platform or foundations teams where your primary consumers are other engineers, not just end users.
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and building inclusive web experiences.

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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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