Senior Backend Developer with Java and Python

Job Description

Introduction

Join IBM's mission to revolutionize digital labor by developing and deploying cutting-edge conversational AI technology in our industry-leading digital labor platform, watsonx Orchestrate. We pride ourselves on our state-of-the-art, secure, and scalable application infrastructure, where data confidentiality, performance, and security are paramount. We are passionate about designing elegant APIs, microservices, cloud-based AI applications, and databases with vast datasets. If you share our passion for great software engineering, working in cross-functional teams, and tackling fast-paced challenging projects, this is the job for you!

Your Role and Responsibilities

This position is part of the watsonx Orchestrate’s AI assistant Runtime team. Our team is responsible for implementing our public APIs and the AI backend systems that are the heart of watsonx Orchestrate. You will collaborate with other development teams to understand their API and data needs and work with Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) and operations teams to enhance watsonx Orchestrate’s scalability, performance, and reliability. Although this is primarily a backend position, the ideal candidate will have knowledge and working experience with frontend technologies such as React.js.

You will prioritize customer and business requirements, working with data scientists, user experience designers, and product managers to understand requirements and create technical architectures. Your responsibilities will span the entire lifecycle of your services, including gathering requirements, design, development, continuous integration/deployment, and supporting operations. You need to be able to think strategically to develop long-term architectural roadmaps while continuously delivering new features to make incremental progress.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Professional backend development experience with Java (Spring Boot) & Python in an enterprise-level environment.
• Demonstrated professional experience with Kubernetes.
• Multiple years of demonstrated professional experience designing and developing enterprise applications.
• Experience developing APIs.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience designing enterprise REST APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience building cloud applications using Spring Boot, with knowledge of MVC, API specifics.

Location

Please note - this position requires working onsite 3 days per week at our Mulhuddart location in Dublin.

About IBM

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 approaches 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

At IBM, we understand that dedication to our clients' success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships are core to what we do. As an IBMer, you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, encouraged to be courageous and experiment every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?