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Job Description Summary:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead collaboration with product architecture and crossfunctional teams to translate complex business and enduser requirements into robust technical designs and longterm platform strategies.

• Design architect and deliver largescale enterprisegrade software systems ensuring performance scalability reliability and maintainability.

• Drive architectural discussions define technical direction and influence product roadmaps through informed recommendations on new features system enhancements and modernization initiatives.

• Identify systemic code quality performance and architectural issues and lead remediation through refactoring redesign or standardization activities.

• Produce highquality technical documentation design specifications and architectural artifacts; communicate complex technical topics clearly to engineering and leadership stakeholders.

• Serve as an escalation point for the most challenging debugging production and customerreported issues providing guidance to other engineers and driving rootcause resolution.

• Operate with full autonomy to deliver complex enhancements resolve critical defects and implement major new product capabilities often spanning multiple components or services.

• Develop deep expertise in hardwaresoftware interactions and systemlevel integration and provide architectural input on crossplatform and crosscomponent behaviors.

• Demonstrate technical leadership in collaborative engineering practices including leading code reviews mentoring peers setting coding standards and improving development workflows.

• Model a strong teamoriented culture driving accountability ownership and engineering excellence across the organization.

• Champion continuous learning and domain mastery proactively identifying opportunities to modernize tools improve architecture and elevate team capabilities.

• Exhibit strategic curiosity and an innovation mindset challenging assumptions proposing new approaches and influencing longterm technical evolution.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience with a proven record of delivering complex highimpact systems in production environments.

• Demonstrated history of leading largescale realworld software development initiatives including crosscomponent or crossplatform projects.

• Expertlevel proficiency in C with deep understanding of objectoriented design advanced language features and architectural tradeoffs.

• Strong understanding of REST APIs distributed system patterns RDBMS concepts and SQL including query tuning and performance diagnostics on SQL Server Oracle PostgreSQL.

• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprisegrade applications frameworks or platform components.

• Familiarity with parser and compileradjacent tooling such as ANTLR JavaCC yacc/bison or custom parser frameworksability to analyze modify or extend grammarbased systems.

• Strong proficiency in both Windows and Linux environments including commandline tooling systemlevel troubleshooting and crossplatform development workflows.

• Ability to mentor engineers influence architectural decisions and drive engineering best practices across teams.

• Strong communication skills capable of articulating complex technical topics to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• Advanced expertise in Qt Core and other low-level modules

• Skilled at reducing platformspecific code and increasing portability across Windows and Linux

• Expert-level experience in both Windows and Linux development

• Strong command of OS internals filesystems threading models debugging tools

• Highly desirable: leading major efforts to port Windows applications to Linux

• Exposure to IBM i (AS/400) and/or IBM z architectures desirable

AI & Developer Productivity Tools

• Hands-on experience using AI code assistants such as:

  • GitHub Copilot

  • Microsoft Copilot

• Ability to leverage AI tools for:

  • Code generation

  • Refactoring

  • Unit test creation

  • Documentation

  • Development acceleration

• Strong understanding of validating and responsibly integrating AI-generated code into production-quality systems

Containerization & DevOps

• Proficiency with Docker for:

  • Image creation

  • Multi-stage builds

  • Debugging containerized applications

  • Optimizing images for performance and footprint

Leadership & Senior-Level Responsibilities

• Defines system architecture drives design decisions and sets engineering direction

• Mentors junior and mid-level engineers; leads deep technical reviews

• Drives complex root-cause analysis performance investigations and production issues

• Partners with cross-functional teams to align product direction with technical strategy

• Owns long-term multiphase technical initiatives with autonomy

• Models engineering excellence code quality and continuous improvement

Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

As part of our commitment to a safe and trustworthy workplace we include background and reference checks in our hiring process.

Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment please call: or send an email to We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

If you like wild growth and working with happy enthusiastic over-achievers youll enjoy your career with us!