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Software Development Team Lead

IBM

Software Engineering

Kraków, Poland

Posted on Jan 29, 2026

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

· Join a first-class software engineering product development team to lead the design, coding, testing and delivering of software supporting and enhancing one of IBM's most successful enterprise-level cloud solutions.

· Participate on highly innovative projects leveraging cutting edge AI techniques.

· The ideal candidate will have a passion for software development with experience using JavaScript (React) and Java, following Agile methodologies in a continuous delivery environment. Should also have experience with cloud native development via microservices, containerization and orchestration.

· The successful candidate will have a passion for building high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with coding standards and technical design.

· The candidate will participate in requirements gathering, sprint planning, design and technical review to support overall achievement of business objectives.

· The candidate will lead a high performance development team while also mentoring and helping recruit new team members.

The candidate will also:

· Participate in the design and implementation of sophisticated software systems front end and backend with a focus for efficiency on cloud and SaaS.

· Participate in software design and code reviews. Reviews include other Software Engineers and are held to ensure a high level of software quality and to share knowledge with team members.

· Participate in, and adhere to, professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Source Code Management (git), and GitHub

· Participate in the planning, creation and execution of automated test cases and load/performance testing

· Maintain a high level of proficiency with Computer Science/Software Engineering knowledge and contribute to the technical skills growth of all team members

· Participate in cross-functional meetings to quicky identify problems and help architect the best and most performant solutions.

· Help interview and hire the best talent. Help retain the best talent.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

· 8+ years of Software Development experience in cloud/SaaS development

· 2+ years of Software Development team leadership experience with assigning work, mentoring teams, driving projects and architecture.

· 5+ years of in enterprise Java development

· 5+ years of experience using NodeJS

· 5+ years of experience microservices, Docker, Kubernetes or other cloud technologies

· Familiarity with AI concepts such as NLP, NLQ, prompt tuning and machine learning

· Familiarity with REST API concepts

· Experience with continuous integration and deployment automation tools (CI/CD)

· Experience with ES6/7, WebSockets, HTML 5, modular CSS, JSON

· Experience writing end-to-end tests using frameworks like Intern, Selenium

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Experience in AI development such as integrating with LLMs, RAG, MCP

· Cross-browser quirks and compatibility

· Familiarity with multidimensional databases and OLAP concepts

· Experience using build, deployment and development tools like Git, Travis, Jenkins, Yarn/NPM, Webpack/Gulp

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.

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