Introduction
Our mission is to revolutionize digital labour by developing and deploying the latest conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technology in IBM's industry-leading digital labour platform watsonx Orchestrate.
We are proud of our state-of-the-art, secure, and scalable application infrastructure, where data confidentiality, performance, and security are the primary requirements. We are passionate about designing elegant APIs, microservices, cloud-based AI applications and databases with huge datasets. If you share our passion for great software engineering, working in cross-functional teams, and fast-paced challenging projects, this is the job for you!
Your Role and Responsibilities
This position is in watsonx Orchestrate's AI assistant Runtime team. Our team is responsible for implementing our public APIs and the AI backend systems that are the heart of watsonx Orchestrate. You will work with other development teams to understand their API and data needs. You will collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) and operations teams to improve watsonx Orchestrate's overall scalability, performance, and reliability. Although this is primarily a backend position, the ideal candidate will have knowledge and working experience with frontend technologies such as React.js.
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You will make the customer and business requirements your top priority. You will work with data scientists, user experience designers, and product managers to understand requirements and create technical architectures. Your responsibilities will span the entire lifecycle of your services, including gathering requirements, design, development, continuous integration/deployment and supporting operations. You need to be able to think strategically to develop long-term architectural roadmaps, while continuously delivering new features to make incremental progress.
Above all, we are looking for team members with a keen sense of ownership, resilience, and drive. If you like dynamic projects and enjoy being challenged, if you can make progress when faced with ambiguous requirements and uncertainty, if you enjoy moving fast (and are not afraid of making a mistake or two on the way), then we are the perfect team for you!
**Please note - This position requires working onsite 3 days per week at our Mulhuddart location in Dublin.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Demonstrated professional backend development experience with one (or more) of the following languages in an enterprise level environment: node.js, or Java & Python
- Professional experience with database technologies, such as Postgres, Redis, COS, Elastic, etc
- Professional experience designing and developing enterprise applications.
- Experience deploying and debugging applications in Kubernetes is Required
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience designing enterprise REST APIs
- Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools such as Jenkins.
- Experience with Openshift