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Job Description Summary:

The Software Engineer-II designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products. In this job you will join a team maintaining a proprietary database management system running on z/OS having batch, interactive and programming language interfaces as well as a web interface. This position will have the focus at the web interface.

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering

Job Overview:

The Software Engineer-II designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products. In this job you will join a team maintaining a proprietary database management system running on z/OS having batch, interactive and programming language interfaces as well as a web interface. This position will have the focus at the web interface.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Contribute to maintenance of an existing Jakarta EE application with proprietary backend (Servlet, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, proprietary procedure language, XML, JSON, TCP/IP, FTP)

• Participate in maintaining and applying the DevOps environment (Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Artifactory, git, Bitbucket, Jira) as well as mastering the product environment (z/OS, TSO, JCL, Linux)

• Learning and apply proprietary concepts and programming languages of the product

• Understand end-user requirements

• Write commercial/enterprise-grade software

• Provide input on designs for software enhancements and new products

• Ability to identify the presence of code problems, analyze and prepare solutions for discussion with senior engineers

• Document and communicate on technical topics without direction

• Seek to shadow other Engineers; working to debug customer issues

• Work under limited direction of a manager and/or team lead to implement software enhancements, correct defects, and/or create new products

• Proficient at programming while working in a team

• Team-oriented, collaborative, accountable, dependable

• Self-directed learning of the application subject matter

• Exercises curiosity

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2+ years of software engineering experience

• Experience in one or more programming languages like Java, Javascript, HLASM

• Ability to analyze existing software

Preferred Qualifications:

• Can-do attitude

• Curiosity and asking "why"

• Experience with Rocket’s Manager Products, ASG Manager Products or MSP DataManager is a plus

• Experience in Mainframe z/OS environment, JCL, DB2 is a plus

• Knowledge of TCP/IP, client server and, HTML is a plus

Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Travel Requirements:

0 - 10%

• Job Family Group: Engineering

• Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering

• Job Profile Name: Software Engineer P2

• Employee Type: Individual Contributor

• Job Level: P2 (Developing)

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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.