R&D Back-End Developer - Software Engineer (m/f/x)

R&D Back-End Developer – Software Engineer (m/f/x)

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

Are you interested in developing and delivering leading-edge software that is essential for the world’s largest companies?
Are you a motivated Java or C++ developer?
Do you like working with cutting edge Open Source technologies?
Are you interested in developing new cloud technologies with us?
Are you passionate about bringing in your expertise and developing your career in an international, agile development culture?
Are you keen on constant learning?
Are you thrilled to innovate, to grow and to collaborate on the latest database and technology trends?

Then you should join us on the IBM watsonx.data team!

Step in and be part of Germany’s IBM Research & Development Lab community, renowned for its innovation and team spirit and offering one of the broadest project portfolios of hardware and software technologies within the IBM Corporation.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for back-end developer highly interested in developing an innovative, future-oriented solution for our large enterprise customers for their journey to the Cloud. Your main duties will include designing and implementing new features, optimizing 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.

Step in and be part of Germany’s IBM Research & Development Lab community, outstanding for its innovation and team spirit and offering one of the broadest project portfolios of hardware and software technologies within the IBM Corporation.

Engineers in our team work inside a highly agile development environment and are responsible for the full software development life cycle – ranging from designing and implementing new product features, testing for industry-leading quality assurance over to continuous product delivery as well as supporting our global customers. You should be thrilled by emerging technologies, such as Cloud and AI technologies, in order to open up our software product for future Mainframe- and Cloud-based markets.

Interested? Apply now with your full set of documents.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• You’ll have a strong background in software development, with expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python, or C++.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and NoSQL databases such as Cloudant would also be beneficial.
• You should be a self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills, able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Broad and proven know-how in database technology and practical experience in software development and agile methodology
• Strong communication skills and fluent in German and English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Database architecture in general
• Proven knowledge in Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
• Experience with Open Data Formats such as Apache Iceberg or Parquet and contributions to Open Source projects on GitHub are a plus
• Ability to develop and enhance complex algorithms or integrate new technology trends

About Business UnitIBM 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.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?
About IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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