Senior Software Engineer

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering 

Job Overview:

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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reviews and provides feedback on designs
• Takes ownership of design and development of features within their component
• Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns
• Demonstrates good understanding of how their work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables
• Defines (more than a feature, less than a product) a component which fits into an architecture
• Describes and defends design decisions for components owned by the team
• Optimizes software design to leverage platform capabilities
• Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain
• Quantifies and communicates work estimates and risks to direct management
• Handles multiple competing priorities with minimal help
• Understands features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks
• Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues
• Consults with customers on larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns
• Effectively works within the team and across teams
• Demonstrates willingness to teach and develop junior team members
• 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 creates a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again
• Follows through on tasks with a high level of accountability
• Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes
• Imparts sense of urgency on junior team members

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience
• Programming languages: C and Java
• 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 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
• Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target
• Excellent listening skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Operating systems: z/OS, iSeries, z/VSE, Windows and Linux would be desirable
• z/OS subsystems such as TCP/IP, JES ….
• Experience with databases such as IMS, DB2 for z/OS, Oracle

Education:

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field

Travel Requirements:

5% minimal travel

Information Security:

Information security is everyone’s responsibility.  A fundamental principle of information security at Rocket Software is that all individuals in the organization have a responsibility for the security and protection of company information and IT Resources over which they have control, according to their role.

Diversity, Inclusion & Equity:

At Rocket we are committed to an inclusive workplace environment, where every Rocketeer can thrive by bringing their full selves to work. Being a Rocketeer means you are part of our movement to continually drive inclusivity, diversity and equity in our workforce.