Staff R&D Software Engineer

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Job Description :

Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division (MSD #BroadcomSoftware) is looking for an excellent software engineer with a passion for building high quality applications using agile practices to join our development team working on the solutions in the area of Event Management and Automation.

Mainframe systems are at the heart of the digital economy, 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.

We are looking for a team member to contribute to the workload automation solution area, with strengths in Mainframe or Dev Ops skills, or a combination of both.

The products in the solution area include backend assembler language components running on the mainframe, with Java and C applications that interact with the backend and provide information to feed frontend components with Open Telemetry events.

Applied experience with CI / CD practices and tools for orchestration, deployment, and testing is a plus.

This position is responsible for creating, testing, ensuring the quality of and maintaining a product or product line. The R&D Software Engineer 4 will perform complex code modification, testing, and debugging tasks, as well as provide high level analysis related to software design and development.

The person in this role is expected to act as a technical lead within a small team, advising, mentoring and coaching more junior developers and partnering with stakeholders such as Product Owners, Solution Architects etc.

BroadcomSoftware #BroadcomSW

Key Responsibilities

Work collaboratively within an Agile Team to write high quality, testable code that meets the Definition of Done.

Strive to meet team commitments.

Adopt a test-first approach to software development in which, where possible, the test is developed before the code.

Participate in design and code reviews with other engineers.

Create automated unit, system, and acceptance tests.

Participate in test plan reviews.

Perform unit / module testing of software.

Actively support and contribute to end of iteration demos.

Responsible for assigned integration, testing, and deployment tasks.

Actively foster continuous team improvement in self and team :

Contribute to team retrospectives; help to identify and resolve team impediments.

Take ownership of problems and continuously strive to become a better problem solver.

Write and maintain documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and corrections.

Actively communicate and collaborate within the team and across functional boundaries.

Improve the overall skill level of the team by mentoring / teaching / coaching.

Typical Role Definition

Professional Staff. A senior level professional role. Evaluation, originality or ingenuity required. Knows and applies the fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of a particular field.

Has mastered the key responsibilities. Assignments can be broad in nature. May serve as a resource to others to resolve complex problems and issues.

Instructions generally provided in general terms. May take on a project lead role as required.

Job-Specific Authority and Scope

Generally, works independently.

Examples of typical decisions without manager consultation :

Volunteer for and commit to delivering stories and tasks within the sprint.

Establish own capacity / velocity for each increment.

Take ownership of problems and continuously strive to become a better problem solver.

Typically has no direct reports.

Typically has no total staff.

Typically has a global geographic focus.

Typically, does not manage a budget.

Business Travel and Physical Demands

No (or minimal) business travel is expected for this position.

Office environment. No special physical demands required.

Preferred Education

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

Work Experience

Typically, 8 or more years of experience in software development or a related field.

General Skills & Competencies

Demonstrates high personal integrity and ability to earn trust from others.

Demonstrates a growth mind-set, seeks feedback often, and is effective in continuous personal and professional development.

Participating in self-directed learning activities aimed at developing deep expertise within technical domains, including reading relevant publications, participating in domain forums or groups etc.

Advanced design / debugging / coding skills.

Complex problem-solving skills.

Strong communications and organization skills.

Great team player.

Exposure to Agile development approaches.

Leadership skills and ability. Coaching and mentoring skills.

Desired Technical Skills & Experience

Mainframe concepts

Familiar with QA and DevOps concepts and practices such as test automation, CI / CD etc.

Experience working on or with Automation tools

HLASM Experience

Java Experience

Experience in the following areas as a plus :

Experience in C, Javascript, Typescript, Spring Boot, HTML, CSS, REST, Web Services, WebSockets, API development

Angular, Node.js, Express.js

Familiarity with web service security

RHEL, CentOS

Jenkins, Gradle, npm, Artifactory, Cypress

Additional Job Description :

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $107,000 - $171,000

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package : Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time.

The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

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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