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Software Development Engineer

IBM

Software Engineering

Dublin, Ireland

Posted on Aug 28, 2025

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Introduction

Elevate Your Career with IBM Ireland – Join Us as a Software Developer!
Are You Ready to Shape the Future of AI and Cloud Technology?
At IBM Ireland, we are not just developing software; we are revolutionising the way businesses operate. As a part of our elite teams, you will work on cutting-edge AI-powered, cloud-native solutions that redefine the industry. Here, your ideas matter, and your work will shape the future!Why IBM Ireland? Innovate with Impact: Be at the forefront of technological innovation, developing backend services and APIs that power our world-class AI-infused management features.Collaborate & Thrive: Work alongside industry-leading Architects, AI Experts, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, and Test Automation Engineers in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary environment that fosters creativity and teamwork. Endless Growth Opportunities: With our global reach and commitment to innovation, IBM Ireland is the perfect place to advance your career and explore new possibilities. Our doors are always open for those eager to learn and grow!

Your role and responsibilities

As a Backend Developer at IBM Ireland, you will:-Be involved in Backend Development Design and build robust microservices and APIs using Java, driving the next generation of our hybrid cloud management products.-Work at the heart of our technology ecosystem, ensuring that our development and operational processes are seamless, efficient and scalable through pipeline automation. If you are passionate about making processes faster and more efficient, this is the area for you.-If you have keen eye for detail and a passion for quality, a love for uncovering hidden issues, we have roles that will meet your curiosity and detective skills.- You have a strong passion for modern software development using languages such as Java, Python, Javascript, Go etc and a keen interest and/or understanding of web applications, GenerativeAI and cloud technologies. You demonstrate a firm grasp of software development methodologies. -You are at your best when working with the best. You love mentoring and being mentored and always willing to learn new skills/technologies for you and your colleagues. -You are a proactive problem-solver who takes initiative and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic setting.

Required education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Several years’ experience in software development roles & projects.
Experience with team/squad leadership.
Sharing knowledge and providing technical/operational mentoring to team members.
Delivering/driving innovation cross your project/teams.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with algorithms, data structures, GenerativeAI/LLMs
Experience with Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices
Experience of working with Cloud technologies (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure etc)
Experience of working with CI/CD processes, DevOps technologies and tooling such as git, Jenkins, Tekton
Experience of Kafka, Cassandra and Postgres technologies
Familiarity with test automation frameworks

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 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.

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.

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