Entry Level Software Developer: 2026

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.

Who You Are:

• 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.

Required education : High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education : 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.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• 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