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Job Description:

Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division (MSD) is looking for a talented and motivated Software Engineer, with experience working with mainframe systems and applications.  In this role, you will be a key member of the Mainframe DevOps development team, focusing on building, enhancing, testing, and supporting Gen (COOL: Gen).

Broadcom has earned scores of global Workplace Excellence awards in the last few years - and there's a reason for that.  It’s our aim to encourage global collaboration and innovation while supporting and developing our talented workforce. Broadcom empowers its employees to drive success for both the business and themselves. We value a lean and flat organization, with team members who work in-office, for a more collaborative culture that focuses on execution and delivering value.

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The Opportunity:

As an R&D Software Engineer 2, you will maintain and enhance a product named Gen (formerly known as COOL: Gen). Gen is a low-code model-driven development environment for enterprise applications. Gen enables global businesses to generate and deploy applications in a single, integrated development environment for multiple platforms.

In this role, you will maintain and enhance Gen’s sophisticated architecture in order to deliver new value while retaining the reliability customers have counted on for 40 years. You will apply your existing base knowledge of mainframe systems and code to a broad expanse of Gen functionality, thus resulting in the rapid growth of skills that only hands-on experience can offer you. Foundational to your success will be collaboration with other engineers and stakeholders, such as customers, support and service teams, product management, solution architects, etc.

Work Location - ON SITE: 5465 Legacy Dr, Plano, TX 75024

Who You Are:

You are a self-motivated team player with a strong aptitude for learning technology, coding in a variety of languages, and straddling the roles of system admin and application developer. You like diving into the unknown and solving complex puzzles to find simple solutions that solve big problems.  You collaborate easily with others, with an Agile mindset that makes communicating, responding to change, and continuous improvement a natural way of working for you. You are excited to grow your career in mainframe technologies, and are eager for the challenge of Gen’s broad capabilities.

• What You’ll Do

• Implement changes to maintain Gen’s compatibility with supported 3rd party products, like IBM mainframe hardware and software.

• Contribute to quality assurance by participating in design/code/test plan reviews, test environment and data preparation, and test execution to deliver high quality software solutions.

• Troubleshoot and fix defects from customer cases that have been escalated to engineering.

• Research and develop software solutions to enhance Gen’s capabilities to deliver new value to customers.

• Learn new skills and technologies, with a focus on mainframe software and systems, and a cross-section of distributed systems and DevOps tools.

• What You Need

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in software development.

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree.

• Skilled in coding in at least two of the following: COBOL, C, C++, Java, IBM Assembler, PL/I

• Experience with zOS systems components and sub-systems such as:  z/OS Language Environment (LE), ISPF, CICS, IMS, Web Sphere Liberty, and DB2.

• Experience working with middleware, such as ECI, TCP/IP or IBM MQ.

• Additional skills that will benefit your efforts

• Experience using Gen ( COOL: Gen).

• Earning the IBM z Xplore certificates (Fundamentals and Advanced)

• Experience with z/OSMF, SMP/E, and IPCS.

• Experience with Source Code Management tools, such as Endevor and GitHub.

• Using VS Code extensions, like those for Code4z.

• Ability to install CICS and IMS, define resources and set up the environment, and write sample programs.

• Understand object oriented programming and interlanguage communications.

• Reading system dumps, using various debugging tools, performance tuning.

Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits:

The annual base salary range for this position is $73,000 - $117,000

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, 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.If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.