Software Engineer (Go)

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
We are looking for Software Engineers specializing in Go programming language to work on dynamically evolving offerings from IBM watsonx family.

As a Software Engineer in watsonx offerings you will be mainly responsible for delivering new features and improvements with the teammates into the product as well as participate in testing & documenting solutions that we deliver in the product. The ideal candidate for this position should be highly motivated to achieve results in fast-paced environment and should be passionate about new technologies especially in the areas of Generative AI.

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 products/solutions we are working on see https://www.ibm.com/watsonx

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Professional experience delivering enterprise-level solutions in Go
• Experience working with containerized environments (Docker + Kubernetes/Openshift)
• Experience with software architecture design including API (e.g. REST API SDK) design
• Experience working with git and any CI/CD automation tool (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions Travis)
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience delivering commercial software including familiarity with most common roles/responsibilities product and release life cycle source code and change management etc.
• Experience with programming in other modern languages (Python Node.js Scala Java)
• Experience on micro-service architecture and development
• Experience with cloud environments
• Working knowledge and understanding of ML/AI concepts especially concerning Large Language Models and foundation models overall