Experienced Mainframe Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division (MSD #BroadcomSW) is looking for a talented and motivated Software Engineer with a passion for building high quality applications using agile practices to join our Mainframe Database Tools team.   In this role, you will be a key member of the development team and will focus on building, testing, and supporting leading edge Mainframe Security solutions used by many of the world’s largest companies. 

We are looking for an engineer who is highly motivated, team oriented and has excellent organization and problem-solving skills.  The individual and team goal will be to develop and maintain high-quality software aligned with user needs and business objectives.   

Preferred work Location for this position is in our Prague (Czech Republic) office.

What you will be doing in a typical week:

• Applying your past experience to inform the product roadmap;
• Experimenting with new technologies that improve our software;
• Developing modern high-quality software - Create unit tests and perform functional testing of software to find bugs and confirm that delivered software meets specifications and quality requirements;
• Interactions with customers for demos, and feedback sessions;
• Work closely with UX design engineers to design and implement user interfaces;
• Drive opportunities to increase efficiency and productivity through best practices.

Qualifications:

At the end of the day, the main things we’re searching for are talent and passion. However, experience in one or more of these areas could make you a great addition to our team:

• Has development experience in the IBM mainframe environment;
• Experience in software development using IBM Assembler/Metal C on the mainframe (zOS or zVSE) platform;
• Mainframe debugging skills using IPCS, VM Trace, XDC, etc.
• Experience is implementing JCL to execute batch processes in zOS or zVSE;
• Exposure to RESTful APIs and Object-Oriented Programming. 
• Knowledge and related product expertise in one or more of the following: IBM Db2, IBM Db2 Utilities, CICS.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment
• Experience mentoring, teaching, and developing lessor experience team members
• Experience in software testing methodologies such as BDD and TDD
• Knowledge of Source Code Controls such as Endevor and Github
• Working experience in an Agile Software Development environment
• Effective communication skills
• Experience in Agile Software Development;

Preferred Education

Bachelor's degree or global equivalent in a software related field.

Work Experience

Typically, 5 years’ experience in software development or a related field.

Mainframe systems are at the heart of the digital economy, did you know 67 of the Fortune 100 companies use Mainframes, 45 of the world’s top 50 banks, 8 of the top 10 insurers, 4 of the top 5 airlines, and 7 of the 10 global retailers all rely on the mainframe. With 80% of the world’s structured corporate data residing or originating on mainframes, and 55% of all enterprise applications hitting the mainframe to complete transactions. Our industry-leading products are critical to many Fortune 1000 companies. If you want to be part of this interesting and energetic business and work on software that makes a difference to the world’s economy, please apply today.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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