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　　Job Description Summary:

　　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.

　　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 :

　　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

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　　Required Qualifications /Experience

　　Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years of related experience

　　Excellent designing and coding skills

　　Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

　　Strong experience in C programming language, preferably on IBMi

　　Proven working experience in multi-threading & multi-processing with C

　　Experience with SQL programming in C

　　Strong background in IBMi OS on IBM Power Servers

　　Proven experience in developing multi-threaded applications in IBMi

　　Strong experience with SQL Databases such as DB2 (DDLs, DMLs, SQL functions, SQL procedures)

　　Proven experience with network programming using TCP/IP

　　Fluency in English language, both written and spoken excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills to deal professionally and collaboratively with all levels of the organization and across geographies.

　　Strong skills of analysis and problem-solving.

　　Preferred Skills /Experience

　　Conversant with public cloud vendors such as IBM Cloud or AWS or Azure

　　Some experience or willingness to learn containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and/or OpenShift

　　Thrives in a multi-tasking environment with constantly evolving priorities.

　　Ability to analyze complex problems into simple sub problems and then reuse available solutions to implement most of those.

　　Ability to design simple systems that can work efficiently without needing much support.

　　Agile development methodologies

　　Education:

　　Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent

　　Travel Requirements:

　　0-10%

　　Job Family Group: Engineering

　　Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering

　　Job Profile Name:Senior Software Engineer

　　Employee Type:Individual Contributor

　　Job Level: P4 (Advanced)

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　　Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

　　Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to [email protected]. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

　　If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

　　Thousands of companies around the world depend on Rocket to solve their most challenging business problems by helping them run their critical infrastructure, business processes, and data, as well as extending the value of these assets to take advantage of cloud and mobile computing, advanced analytics, and other future innovations. From the clothes we wear to the cars we drive, Rocket solutions power the back-end systems that thousands of brands interact with every day. At Rocket, software has always been about people—not just ones and zeroes. We’re people solving problems for other people, and we strive to treat our customers, partners, and fellow Rocketeers with humanity. Founded in 1990, Rocket Software is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with 31 offices around the world.