Back End Developer Intern - Poughkeepsie

As an intern, you’ll gain hands‑on experience working on real‑world projects that impact users globally. You’ll collaborate with architects and developers to produce and maintain backend services, APIs, and internal tooling using modern AI technologies. We are also looking for you to bring your own knowledge and expertise to the role along with a willingness to challenge the status quo in the interest of developing the best business outcomes.

Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems?

IBM is seeking a talented and enthusiastic Backend Developer to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity for Interns to contribute to enterprise-scale software development projects, learn from experienced engineers, and grow within a global technology leader. You’ll help build and maintain backend systems that power IBM’s internal and external applications. You will have the opportunity to experience full stack development working across the entire system architecture.

• Assist in the development and maintenance of backend services, APIs, and data integrations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, architects, and product managers.
• Write clean, efficient, and well‑documented code.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging activities.
• Support deployment and monitoring of backend applications in cloud, enterprise, and hybrid environments.
• Continuously learn and apply best practices in software engineering and backend architecture.

High School Diploma/GED

Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Must have basic knowledge in many of the following technology areas:

• Understanding of software development concepts.
• Software Development Lifecycle & Agile Methodologies (Scrums, Dev Ops workflows, exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins or Github Actions
• Operating systems and how they work (i.e. Operating systems courses);
  Container technologies;
  Internet Services; and/or Managed Services.
• AI fundamentals and coding assistants
• Communication skills and the ability to learn new technologies and procedures.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and eagerness to learn.

Exposure to Agile Methodologies: Participation in agile methodologies, collaborating with team members to deliver solutions, with a focus on understanding the principles and practices of agile development.

• Knowledge of computer security and cryptography fundamentals
• Understanding of virtualization concepts and cloud operations
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes
• Exposure to/understanding of Assembly language and related programming techniques

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future.

Join us to help build our leading‑edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

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