Backend Software Engineer (Regular/Senior)

Job description

Introduction
Rise to meet the challenge of solutioning the world’s problems. Software engineers at IBM get to see their work in the real world, improving the current state of disaster preparedness and providing more accurate medical solutions around the globe. You will be challenged to think outside the box, work across organizations, and engineer creative solutions that scale to the demands of our ever-growing customer base. Take ownership and be actively engaged in the entire product lifecycle - from quick hits to full feature development.

Your Role and Responsibilities
WatsonX & Watson Machine Learning is looking for Backend Software Engineer to work from Kraków (Poland) office on edge-cutting AI solutions.

Have you heard about generative AI (like GPT models)? In that role, you’ll have the chance to get familiar with ongoing AI revolution.
You will be responsible for framework and library development, performance profiling and cross language project work.

A successful individual for this role should possess:
• Ability to jump into multiple source code bases
• Self-driven and a desire to continually learn
• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency
• Strong analytical and problem-solving thinking
• Ability to take ownership of problems to resolution and tasks to completion

For an overview of the product, see https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-ai

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• 3+ years of professional experience coding and debugging in Python and experience coding in one of the other languagues such as: Go, Java, Scala
• Experience working with containerized environments (Docker/K8S/Openshift above all) is a plus
• Basic experience with machine learning techniques and machine learning tools and frameworks including but not limited to: scikit-learn, xgboost, lightGBM, tensorflow, pytorch
• Experience on agile software development
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Working knowledge and understanding of machine learning and deep learning models (including Large Language Models)
• Experience on micro-service architecture and development
• Experience with cloud environments is a plus
• Exposure to CI/CD automation