Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe & Distributed Systems

About This Role

Join a Fortune 500 company as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in mainframe and distributed systems. This role involves building and delivering high-quality software solutions, contributing to engineering best practices, and driving innovation in trading technology.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver high-quality, maintainable software solutions in an Agile environment
• Ensure solutions meet both functional and non-functional business requirements
• Contribute to engineering best practices, including code reviews, cloud strategy, and CI/CD improvements
• Clearly communicate technical solutions and ideas to stakeholders across all levels
• Develop a strong understanding of the business domain and contribute meaningfully to technical discussions with both internal and external partners
• Continuously research and recommend modern tools and creative practices to drive innovation within the team

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong knowledge of CICS (including Dynamic Transaction Routing)
• Strong knowledge of COBOL
• Strong knowledge of DB2 (or DBZ)
• Strong knowledge of VSAM
• Strong knowledge of JCL
• Familiarity with mainframe and DB2 tools such as File-AID, debuggers, and job schedulers
• Experience working with highly transactional, fault-tolerant, and data-driven systems
• Ability to identify and mitigate technical risks
• Comfortable collaborating across distributed/global teams
• Strong problem diagnosis and troubleshooting skills
• On-call rotation experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent
• 5+ years of professional software development experience

Nice to Have

• Basic understanding of Sprint Boot or similar frameworks
• Basic understanding of Python
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript & RESTful APIs
• Exposure to the Brokerage/Finance domain especially brokerage and margin products

Skills

* Required skills