Confluent - Software Developer - Intern Conversion

International Business Machines Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Software Developer: Generalist to design, develop, test, and deliver software offerings in an Agile, collaborative environment. You will work with backend and frontend components, ensuring code quality, unit tests, and timely delivery while contributing to CI/CD pipelines and supporting customer-focused improvements.

The role emphasizes collaboration across stakeholders, rapid iteration, and delivering reliable software solutions that power digital transformation across

Qualifications

• Familiarity with designing, developing, testing, and delivering back-end components.
• Understanding of Agile principles and collaborative requirements gathering.
• Experience designing and testing component-level software for product integration.
• Exposure to debugging customer-reported problems and code fixes.
• Familiarity with automated CI/CD pipelines and related tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, and deliver component-level software.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in an Agile environment to meet requirements.
• Debug customer-reported problems and implement fixes.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation for quality gates.
• Deliver offerings using leading-edge and proven technologies.

Skills

Back-End Development

Agile Methodologies

Component-Level Design

Debugging/Troubleshooting

CI/CD Pipelines

Front-End Development

DevOps Knowledge

L3 Support Engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Software Developer: Generalist, you will design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Develop Software Solutions: Design, code, and test component-level software solutions, ensuring they are unit tested and ready for integration into products.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work in an Agile environment to understand stakeholder requirements and deliver solutions that meet their needs.
• Debug Customer Issues: Design, develop, and unit test code fixes for customer-reported problems.
• Contribute to CI/CD Pipeline: Participate in the development of an automated CI/CD pipeline that takes code through various quality stages.
• Deliver Offerings: Test and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 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.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Front-End Development Skills: Exposure to designing, developing, testing, and delivering front-end components of software applications using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.
• DevOps Engineering Knowledge: Familiarity with DevOps engineering practices and tools, contributing to the development of automated CI/CD pipelines.
• L3 Support Engineering: Exposure to L3 support engineering, debugging customer-reported problems, and designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes.

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In 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 IBM

IBM’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 500 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job‑related skills and experience for this position.