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We are seeking a skilled back-end developer to join our IBM development team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.
Your Role and Responsibilities The Z Software AI team is looking for back end developers who show the initiative and thrive at tackling problems. The AI landscape as a whole is rapid paced and comes with ever developing requirements, which you as a developer would be required to help design and engineer solutions that innovate within that environment. This will include understanding AI principals with data manipulation and transformation, prompt engineering, and model validations as we look to build up high quality solutions. You will be applying the software engineering rigour to developments from IBM Research, ensuring proper processes and best practices are followed accordingly. Your ability to shift between technologies and languages is important for this role.
Your main duties will include designing and implementing new features, optimising and maintaining existing code, and ensuring the software meets high-quality standards through testing and debugging. You will also work closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to ensure the software meets user needs.
What You’ll Do:
You’ll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative AI solutions and demonstrate these solutions to our clients.
You’ll integrate with other teams across IBM to identify and build AI solutions that infuse and incorporate into Z Software portfolio.
You’ll employ IBM’s Design Thinking to validate user scenarios to develop solutions with high performance, security, quality, and stability.
Skills you will develop:
An understanding of AI technologies (especially foundation and Large Language Models (LLM))
Tackling the challenges of training, testing, benchmark, and validating AI generated content and code.
Becoming familiar with the business applications of AI and how the Watsonx platform brings value to IBM clients.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
5+ years experience in Java, Python, Go, Node.js, JavaScript, JSON, Open API specification.
Proven experience in designing and developing APIs.
Linux or UNIX development
Strong Experience with DevOps and Cloud computing - Docker, Kuberenetes, Openshift
Strong IT networking skills
Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Tower
Strong understanding of database concepts and experience working with relational databases, preferably Db2 for z/OS
An interest in AI principles including prompt engineering, RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) data transformations and vectors, etc..
Strong and independent analytics and problem-solving skills.
Strong experience with git, other source control practises, and various development tools and IDE’s.
Exprience in creating test cases, test plan and test automation
Agile Application Development & Scrum methodologies.
Strong documentation/communication skills to manage work items.
Demonstrated written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proven ability to lead the team
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Familiarity with z/OS and mainframe technologies.
Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies, such as Tekton or ArgoCD.
Knowledge of COBOL,Assembler programming, Job Control Language (JCL) Restructured Extended Executor language (REXX), IBM IMS (Information Management System), PL/I programming language is plus
Skilled at defining test strategies that can include AI and non AI solutions
Experience in Generative AI strongly preferred
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.
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