Introduction
A career in IBM means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

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