Senior Software Engineer

Rocket Software Senior Software Engineer Honolulu, Hawaii Apply Now

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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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Reviews and provides feedback on designs
• Takes ownership of design and development of features within their component
• Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns
• Good understanding of how their work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables
• Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component which fits into an architecture
• Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team
• 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
• Consults with customers on larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns
• Willingness to teach and develop junior team members
• 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 creates a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again
• Follows through on tasks with a high level of accountability
• Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes
• Imparts sense of urgency on junior team members

Required Qualifications :

• Minimum 8 years of software engineering experience
• Mastery of data structures and algorithms
• Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems
• Able to write high-quality code rapidly
• Able to present track record of solving problems of increasing complexity
• Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems that have variable levels of complexity
• Deep understanding of memory allocation and management mechanism, security mechanisms, processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems
• Programming languages : C and Java

Preferred Qualifications :

• Operating systems : z / OS, iSeries, z / VSE, Windows and Linux would be desirable
• z / OS subsystems such as TCP / IP, JES .
• Experience with databases such as IMS, DB2 for z / OS

Education :

Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related field

Travel Requirements :