IBM is a global technology and consulting company focused on hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and other technology innovations. The Associate Software Engineer develops and tests software solutions, contributes to component-level design, debugging, and quality assurance, and learns to apply software development lifecycle and engineering best practices under senior guidance.
The Associate Software Engineer develops and tests software solutions that contribute to solving user problems. Guided by senior team members, this position exists to build a strong technical foundation by understanding how well-crafted, high-quality code directly impacts customer satisfaction. A key function is to learn and apply best practices to deliver reliable features, ensuring all work meets the quality standards our customers expect. This role is foundational in upholding our commitment to software excellence from the ground up
Technical Impact: Designs and develops software solutions by contributing with guidance to a subsystem or component
Ensure Software Quality and Reliability: Contributes with guidance to testing and debugging of software
Internal and External Collaboration: Actively learns from internal and external communities by participating in discussions and seeking feedback to understand their ecosystem
Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent: Seeks out and adopts constructive feedback from more senior associates, managers, and other leaders
Own and Deliver Business Impact: Takes ownership of assigned tasks and delivers on time, providing value to the end user
Apply and Advance Technical Practices: Learns and applies team's best practices
Leverage and Utilize AI Tools: Follows established procedures to utilize AI tools and agents for completing routine development tasks and improving personal productivity
SDLC: Follows the team's established SDLC for all assigned tasks, focusing on learning and correctly applying each stage of the process
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
• **Exposure to Back-End Development:** Familiarity with designing, developing, testing, and delivering back-end components of software applications using leading-edge and/or proven technologies
• **Experience with Agile Methodologies:** Understanding of Agile principles and practices, with experience working in a collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements
• **Component-Level Software Design:** Knowledge of designing, coding, and testing component-level software solutions, ensuring they are unit tested and ready for integration into products
• **Debugging and Troubleshooting:** Exposure to debugging customer-reported problems, designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes
• **Automated CI/CD Pipelines:** Familiarity with contributing to the development of automated CI/CD pipelines that take code through various quality stages
Preferred
• **Front-End Development Skills:** Exposure to designing, developing, testing, and delivering front-end components of software applications using leading-edge and/or proven technologies
• **DevOps Engineering Knowledge:** Familiarity with DevOps engineering practices and tools, contributing to the development of automated CI/CD pipelines
• **L3 Support Engineering:** Exposure to L3 support engineering, debugging customer-reported problems, and designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes
Benefits
Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long-term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs
Paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
IBM provides technology and consulting, including software, infrastructure systems, and cloud-based solutions.
