Software Engineer Specialist

About Rocket Software: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 we 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, MA, with 31 offices and communities around the world.

Job Overview: The Software Engineering Specialist designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for new products, new features and software enhancements.

You will be expected to work in a fast-paced environment where you will bring your deep technical expertise to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Your ability to collaborate effectively with other Rocketeers across geographies and technologies will be vital to retain our solutions as the premier technology in the industry. Apply for this exciting opportunity to grow professionally as a part of a dynamic team that continues to grow this business!

You will contribute to Rocket products in the Continuous Modernization Suite. It is a comprehensive solution for IBM I / mainframe modernization that improves users’ productivity, while easing the skills shortage.  One of the products in this Continuous Modernization Suite is Rocket Modern Experience & API – an enterprise platform that helps customers modernize their legacy applications and create APIs or modern UXs without making any disruptive changes to the application itself. It helps put legacy applications to work in new ways – as mobile & web applications and web services for internal and cloud initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Mastery of software systems (building and running them too)
• Proficient at complex programming, exercising independence and discretion while working independently
• or as part of a team.
• May lead a team on short or long-term projects as needed.
• Act as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain and may act as the technical leader within a team.
• Works independently to create new products, new features, implement software enhancements, correct defects.
• Set the direction for design and implementation of software features/functionality, correction of defects
• and/or creation of new products
• Documents and communicates on complex technical topics outside the immediate development team
• May interact with customer users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications
• History of success working within a team environment

Required Qualifications/Experience

• Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years of related experience
• Excellent designing, coding & debugging skills
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable distributed application
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Ability to write clean, concise, understandable code
• Proven working experience in Java development / Spring / Spring boot and MVC
• Good exposure to C++/VC++ and corresponding IDEs (willingness to contribute to c++ components)
• Awareness of Application security, OWASP / 12 factor apps
• Multithreading, memory management in code, performance aspects
• Experience with popular web servers like Apache Tomcat
• Experience in JMS, JSON documents
• Experience with SQL Databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server) including JDBC
• Experience with File Transfer protocols (FTP, SFTP)
• Experience with Windows and Unix/Linux operating systems
• Proficient understanding and experience of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience with test-driven development using Junit, Mockito
• Some experience in / or a willingness to learn new technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience with Windows Schannel API (SSL)
• Proficient understanding and experience of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins) and build tools (Maven, Gradle)
• Thrives in a multi-tasking environment…