Senior Software Engineer - IBM z/VSE Assembler

September 15

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Description

• The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. • Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. • Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware. • Be familiar with IBM z/VSE Assembler technologies • Review and provide feedback on designs. • Takes ownership of the design and development of features within their component. • Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns. • Good understanding of how his/her work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables. • Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component that fits into an architecture. • Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team. • Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities. • Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain. • Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management • Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help • Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks • Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target • Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues • Discuss with customers what larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns • Willingness to teach and grow junior team members • Excellent listening skills • Effectively works within the team and across teams • Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers • Takes identified problems and concerns and create a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again • Follows through on all tasks • Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes • Imparts a sense of urgency on junior team members

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience • Extensive knowledge of z/VSE and CICS TS operations and internals • Mastery of data structures and algorithms. Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems. • Able to write high-quality code rapidly. • Able to present a track record of solving problems of increasing complexity • Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems that have variable levels of complexity. • Deep understanding of memory allocation and management mechanism, security mechanisms, processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems. • Experience with z/VSE and CICS system monitoring • Experience with source code management using Git and Bitbucket • Experience with DevOps implementation in z/VM and z/VSE environments • Writes code faster than the average developer. Outstanding quality with few bugs in generated code.