SW Developer Intern | Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering

Markham, ON, Canada

Posted on Sep 12, 2026
Introduction

As an IBM Intern, you’ll gain hands-on experience working on meaningful projects that create value for users around the world. You’ll collaborate with experienced designers and developers to build responsive, user-centered applications using modern technologies, while contributing your own ideas, perspectives, and technical skills. We value individuals who are curious, proactive, and willing to challenge conventional thinking to drive better outcomes.

At IBM, work is more than a job, it's an opportunity to create, innovate, and solve complex problems alongside some of the brightest minds in technology. As part of a collaborative and inclusive community, you’ll help develop solutions that make a real impact for clients and communities worldwide. If you’re ready to learn, grow, and help shape the future of technology, we’d love to hear from you.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Developer at IBM, you’ll help build the technologies powering the quantum revolution and the next generation of AI. Join a team of innovators who turn bold ideas into real-world solutions through creativity, curiosity, and continuous learning, delivering impact on some of the industry’s most trusted platforms.

In this role, you’ll work across client-server architectures, networking, application development, and databases to design and deploy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. We’re seeking motivated developers who can create clean, well-documented, and intuitive APIs that enable customers and teams to build with confidence.

You’ll also design and develop scalable server applications, firmware, and databases, while helping build large-scale systems that support continuous delivery across cloud and on-premises environments. Depending on the role, responsibilities may include:

1) Participating in Agile development cycles, including design, coding, testing, and support

2) Transforming wireframes into intuitive, functional user experiences

3) Applying software engineering and testing best practices to deliver high-quality solutions

4) Leveraging AI-powered tools to enhance development efficiency and productivity

5) Integrating AI capabilities to make our platform solutions easier to deploy, use, and scale

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Minimally, the incumbent will possess:

1) Prior (project or internship) experience in software development and/or platform engineering

2) Strong verbal and written communication skills

3) Passion for technology and engineering

4) Soft skills & behaviors to include a growth mindset, trusted, teamwork, courageous, resourceful and outcome focused

5) Working knowledge of servers, applications, devOps tools (Git, Jenkins) and databases

Program Start Date: May 03, 2027

Program Duration: 8 Months

Candidates must be available to participate for the full duration of the internship

Preferred technical and professional experience

The ideal candidate will also have experience with or a working knowledge of:

1) Cloud development (pushing code through a CD pipeline)

2) Generative AI practical application in development environment to include prompt engineering

3) One or more of the following technologies: C++, C, Java, Golang, Ruby, Python, Perl, SQL

4) Virtualization concepts and cloud operations

5) Working knowledge of one or more major DataBases: MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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