IBM

Senior Engineer for Microservices Platform

📍 Location
toronto, on
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 27, 2026

Job Description

Join IBM as a Senior Engineer, specializing in microservices and backend systems in Markham, Toronto. This role emphasizes system design, operational excellence, and mentoring.
As a Senior Software Engineer II, you'll lead backend system implementations, ensuring reliability and performance within a complex cloud-first landscape. You'll collaborate across teams for coherent data models and API definitions, contributing to architecture decisions that inform system operability. Mentorship will also play a key role in growing team expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
• Own design and implementation of backend services
• Communicate architecture tradeoffs effectively
• Enhance service operations through improved observability
• Mentor junior engineers via reviews and guidance
• Identify and implement tooling improvements for development
Requirements:
• 7+ years experience in building scalable backend systems
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java or G...

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