High Level Assembly (HLASM) Developer

Responsibilities

The IBM Compilation Technology team is looking for an assembler developer to join our mission to deliver leading-edge compiler offerings. The IBM Compilation Technology team is known for developing world-class compilers and runtimes. Our squads are autonomous, multi-disciplinary teams, consisting of talented software developers with knowledge in new and up and coming language standards, hardware design, compiler optimization expertise, contribute to the open source and proprietary compiler technologies, and proven software development skills.

In this position, you will be working on modernizing, developing and supporting High Level Assembler (HLASM) on IBM System Z mainframes. You will work with internal and external clients to define requirements, develop new features and improve legacy mainframe development environments in general. You will also perform maintenance activities by responding to high severity problems and cases, performing problem diagnosis, providing fixes and regression testing fixes.

While you will be working with legacy technologies, we hope to bring mainframe development into the new age, so knowing modern software development technologies and pipelines is a plus.


Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

5+ years of software development experience

Expertise coding one more of the following languages:Assembler, C/C++, C, PL/X

Programming skills in HLASM

Experience in low-level debugging and problem determination (e.g. dump analysis)

Experience on System Z mainframes (e.g. zOS ISPF, zOS USS, zVM CMS, REXX…)

Has interest in and aptitude for low level programming (e.g. projects involving assembler or embedded systems, taken courses such as computer architecture, operating systems, microprocessor systems...)

Proficient in source control management tools and development processes (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins…)

Strong analytical, debugging and problem-solving skills

Self-motivated towards meeting agreed goals

Open to collaborate across different time zones

Ability to use conference and collaboration tools effectively

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience in compiler development

Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Perl, Ansible, Python…)

Technical leadership experience

Knowledge in one or more computer architectures, and of hardware/software
Interactions (e.g. driver or kernel development)

Experience in creating testcases and automation of testcases