What are the responsibilities and job description for the Entry Level Software Developer: 2026 position at IBM?
Introduction
As a Software Developer, you’ll gain hands-on experience working on real-world projects that impact users globally. You’ll collaborate with designers and developers to build responsive, elegant, and user-friendly applications using modern web technologies.
Your Role And Responsibilities
You will:
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
As a Software Developer, you’ll gain hands-on experience working on real-world projects that impact users globally. You’ll collaborate with designers and developers to build responsive, elegant, and user-friendly applications using modern web technologies.
Your Role And Responsibilities
You will:
- Participate in Agile development cycles: design, code, test, and support.
- Translate wireframes into functional user interfaces.
- Learn and apply best practices in software development and testing.
- Work with APIs, databases, and cloud-based services.
- Curious, motivated, and eager to learn new technologies.
- A team player with strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Comfortable with debugging, problem-solving, and adapting to new challenges.
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).
- Basic knowledge of backend technologies: Node.js, Java, Python, SQL.
- Understanding of software development tools (Git, IDEs) and version control.
- Exposure to automation testing frameworks and APIs.
- Awareness of operating systems, container technologies, and cloud platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure).
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Familiarity with Agile tools and methodologies.
- Linux or Unix based OS
- Any one modern programming language like GO, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python
- Integrated development environments (e.g.: Eclipse, Visual Studio Code)
- Familiarity with Source control management (e.g. Git): to enable teams to work together to manage changes to source code
- Knowledge of containers, containers orchestration software, cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of SQL and relational database technology (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, Db2, Oracle, SQL Server)
- Knowledge of automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Jenkins, Puppeteer, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or any other automation framework
- Knowledge of Deployment tools like Jenkins, Travis: for ensuring the latest software release is packaged correctly, tested, and deployed to an application server.
- Development experience with REST API development
