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Your role and responsibilities

Watsonx is IBMs strategic data and AI platform for building, deploying and governing AI applications. 

We are looking for a passionate software engineer with a focus on backend technologies to join the watsonx development team to help us shaping the future of IBM watsonx. You will be part of a modern development team and surrounded by people who are excited about technology, building great products using open source and that are open to learn from your experience.  The local team is part of a worldwide development team and strong communication and teaming skills are mandatory.

In your role as software engineer you will:

  • Design, architecture and implement production ready features
  • Be responsible for the full software development cycle of the features you develop
  • Embrace agile development best practices
  • Develop automation for testing and deployments
  • Deliver features across Hybrid Cloud and Cloud in a continuous fashion
  • Apply a DevOps mentality and operate the cloud service you develop
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 2+ experience as software developer 
  • Very good Node.js and Python programming skills
  • Good understanding of REST and microservices architectures
  • Experienced with applying agile software development methods
  • Hands-on experience with test automation and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis
  • Experience with machine learning and AI technologies
  • Good understanding of Kubernetes and Git / GitHub
  • English: fluent
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Advanced in Node.js, Python, shell programming skills
  • Experience with IDE development i.e. VSCode
  • Experience with development of open-source software
  • Experience working with SQL and No-SQL databases
  • Experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • Experience with different Cloud Platforms i.e. IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure
  • Good knowledge of machine learning and AI technologies
  • German: proficient

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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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