Associate Software Engineer: Backend, CI/CD & Agile

IBM; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 71,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) and Other Functions encompasses diverse teams such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, driving IBM’s global initiatives from the heart of the organization in Massachusetts.

The Associate Software Engineer role focuses on building a strong technical foundation through high-quality code and best practices, contributing to reliable features and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Exposure to Back-End Development: Familiarity with designing, developing, testing, and delivering back-end components of software applications using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.
• Experience with Agile Methodologies: Understanding of Agile principles and practices, with experience working in a collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements.
• Component-Level Software Design: Knowledge of designing, coding, and testing component-level software solutions, ensuring they are unit tested and ready for integration into products.
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Exposure to debugging customer-reported problems, designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes.
• Automated CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with contributing to the development of automated CI/CD pipelines that take code through various quality stages.

Responsibilities

• Technical Impact: Designs and develops software solutions by contributing with guidance to a subsystem or component.
• Ensure Software Quality and Reliability: Contributes with guidance to testing and debugging of software.
• Internal and External Collaboration: Actively learns from internal and external communities by participating in discussions and seeking feedback to understand their ecosystem.
• Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent: Seeks out and adopts constructive feedback from more senior associates, managers, and other leaders.
• Own and Deliver Business Impact: Takes ownership of assigned tasks and delivers on time, providing value to the end user.
• Apply and Advance Technical Practices: Learns and applies team's best practices.
• Leverage and Utilize AI Tools: Follows established procedures to utilize AI tools and agents for completing routine development tasks and improving personal productivity.
• SDLC: Follows the team's established SDLC for all assigned tasks, focusing on learning and correctly applying each stage of the process.

Skills

Back-End Development

Agile Methodologies

Component-Level Software Design

Debugging and Troubleshooting

Automated CI/CD Pipelines

Front-End Development

DevOps Engineering Knowledge

L3 Support Engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) and Other Functions encompasses diverse teams such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, driving IBM’s global initiatives from the heart of the organization in Massachusetts.

The Associate Software Engineer role focuses on building a strong technical foundation through high-quality code and best practices, contributing to reliable features and customer satisfaction.