Python Job: Python Back-End Developer - Watson Orders

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Watson Orders is looking for a Python Back-End Developer to support the development of an edge artificial intelligence (AI) product. This engineering role presents the opportunity to work at the intersection of audio hardware, deep learning, and edge infrastructure while collaborating with a dynamic team and helping enable one of the largest deployments of brick-and-mortar AI technology.

The core responsibility of this role is to support the development of efficient, modular, reliable and scalable AI Voice Agent that is deployed at quick service restaurants. The back-end work focuses on core logic of the AI product, microservices, distributed processing, telemetry, and scalability of a product and platform that will reach 10s of millions of customers per day.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain core Voice Agent application services and frameworks
• Support the addition of new languages to the Voice Agent
• Own core AI applications and related tooling, focusing on the system's integration, configuration, lifecycle and event management
• Enable modular, testable and scalable deployment through continuous, incremental refactoring of core applications
• Keep and push for the high bar of development best practices: test coverage, design patterns, documentation and self-documenting code
• Address core design and stability issues across the stack and platform
• Educate engineering teams on standard methodologies, and where possible, automate enforcement and migrate existing code to ensure compliance

This role is open to be filled in Markham or Ottawa.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in Linux environments with good understanding of Linux processes.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing back-end/server technologies in Python
• Strong experience in high performance, server and service programming, e.g. distributed, multi-threaded programming writing network clients and coordinating high throughput inter-process communication
• Quick learner

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in containers- and Kubernetes-based development
• Experience in shell scripting and cross-language system development
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent experience

IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM’s Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments—with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

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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.

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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.

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.