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Backend Engineer

IBM Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Posted: 21 May 2024

Financial

  • Salary unspecified
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the job

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Software development is critical to the success of IBM and our clients worldwide. At IBM, you will use the latest software development tools, techniques and approaches and work with leading minds in the industry to build solutions you can be proud of. This opportunity is for a new product suite, WATSONX, that IBM brought to the market in 2024. We are looking for seasoned professionals who are passionate about Data, AI and ML.

What's In It For You

  • You will work in an innovation driven, collaborative environment to understand requirements, architect, design and implement functionalities / features
  • You will work with customers, understand their requirements and translate then to product features
  • You will work in a agile development environment and be part of large scale scrums
  • You will actively contribute to all phases of software development including development and testing
  • You will experience a culture of continuous learning to aid progression
  • You will develop proof of concepts to establish technical feasibility
  • You will mentor junior members
  • You will get an opportunity to work with various open source products and actively contribute back to their community
  • You will get equal opportunity to work on cloud and software product deployments
  • You will be the pioneers and be part core team to set up and establish this mission

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Strong development experience in Java or C++ and object-oriented programming (12+ years)
  • Strong development experience with REST API development
  • Python and similar languages will be an advantage
  • Experience working with Linux or Unix based OS
  • Working knowledge in Container technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
  • Working knowledge on OpenShift
  • Experience working with Automation and Integration processes and tools like Jenkins
  • Experienced with tools such as GitHub
  • Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM-based environment
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and writing)
  • Excellent communicator

For Senior Bands:

  • Team leading and leadership experience
  • Influencing skills
  • Experience of having worked in global organisations will be an added advantage

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

  • Experience with AI & ML Technologies
  • Experience with Data Engineering, Data Governance, Data Management
  • AWS or IBM Cloud expertise
  • Awareness or past experience in Big Data technologies, Spark, streaming data
  • Track record of open source contributions
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent

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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