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Software Developer (AI Backend)

IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

Markham, ON, Canada

Posted on Nov 21, 2025

Introduction

IBM watsonx BI team builds a business insight agent that unblock the full value of the data and transform it into clear, actionable guidance to drive smarter, faster decisions.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a Backend Software Developer(AI) to join us at watsonx BI! We build an enterprise scale, industry leading, Gen AI-based BI solution that employs AI to allow users to better understand and make better decisions from their data.

We are on a journey to modernize our product suite, moving to a cloud-first offering while adopting a micro-services architecture. We’re transforming how we develop, test and deploy features through continuous integration and continuous delivery. We are looking for you to help us on this journey.

As a backend developer, you will be part of a global team that builds and supports a fullstack BI solution. From within the team, you will work using the Agile model, in a cooperative and innovative environment, interfacing with global teams. In this role:

- You’ll work in a dynamic, collaborative environment to understand requirements, design, code and test innovative applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers.

- You’ll create products that provide a great user experience along with high performance, security, quality, and stability.

- Design and code services, applications and databases that are reusable, scalable and meet critical architecture goals.

- Create Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are clean, well-documented, and easy to use.

- Design, code and support technologies that injects AI features into current offerings.

- Support and adapt code based on feedback from customers deploying the current offering in mission critical environments.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

5+ years of experience in software development
Robust experience in designing and developing backend development with Typescript/Javascript, Java and Python
Hands on experience leveraging generative AI technologies (e.g., prompt engineering, Agent design, LLMs)
Good verbal and written English with strong collaboration, analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Have knowledge in AI/ML Fundamentals

Experience Machine Learning application development.

Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

Experience with GitHub.

Experience with both public and private cloud base application development.

Experience working in global Agile organizations.

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.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

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