Application Developer

When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust. You join a team of IBMers who are helping technology support a positive global transformation. So join us and experience a place where you can co-create your learning and opportunities. A place where teamwork and unique ideas are treasured. A place where you can bring innovation to life.

Your role and responsibilities

The Blue Studio is IBM's internal creative team, responsible for the strategic evolution and expression of the IBM brand across every experience and encounter, internally and externally.

Blue Studio is part of IBM's Marketing function and supports all of IBM, horizontally, across all businesses, and vertically, from the top of the funnel to the bottom. The work crosses nearly every category of output: research and strategy, communications and content development, symbology and systems, digital and physical experiences, and tools and training. Our goal is to maintain modernity, sophistication, and tangibility, and to promote understanding of the IBM brand in the world.

The Blue Studio is looking to build our technical team. Blue Studio Application developers will work in partnership with architect, tester, web design and project manager practitioners to deliver a complete application in service of clients worldwide and in local markets

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading edge and / or proven technologies
• Design, code, and test innovative component-level software solutions
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues across the studio and stakeholder to translate requirements into digital solutions

We offer a dynamic blend of personal flexibility and a thriving in-office environment. This role requires three days of in-office presence per week, with two days for remote work

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Effective communicator who is able to clearly convey technical concepts and ideas
• Creative and critical thinker who is able to generate innovative solutions and evaluate the effectiveness of existing work
• Innovator who can apply new technology and approaches
• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality Python 3.x applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize project requirements
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of the codebase
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing applications
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Fluent English

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Proficient in Node.js, React, Gatsby, Next.js, or redux
• Experience with popular Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, or Pyramid
• Comfortable using large language models (e.g. openai, llama, granite)
• Proficient in building databases and working with large sets of data (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Experience with IBM cloud platform or similar
• Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Pytest, Unittest)
• Prior experience using WebGL

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.

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