Senior Software Engineer

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a stream-aligned IT delivery team responsible for supporting, enhancing, and modernizing critical enterprise systems. This role requires strong technical ownership, deep COBOL expertise, and experience working in CI/CD-driven environments supporting large, business‑critical applications. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across procedural and object-oriented paradigms, can analyze complex system interactions, and balances system stability with incremental modernization. This role plays a key part in ensuring reliable, efficient, and sustainable software delivery across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise applications aligned with business requirements and architectural standards.
• Enhance, support, and modernize existing and legacy systems, with a primary focus on COBOL development.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following established standards and best practices.
• Take technical ownership of assigned applications, ensuring reliability, maintainability, and production stability.
• Troubleshoot complex issues; participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis, and long-term fixes.
• Work within established SDLC and CI/CD pipelines, including configuring and maintaining YAML-based deployment definitions.
• Collaborate with DevOps, platform, infrastructure, QA, and business stakeholders to support secure and automated delivery.
• Contribute to incremental modernization and continuous improvement of legacy systems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation supporting onboarding and operational support.
• Participate in on-call rotation as required.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of application development experience.
• Strong understanding of procedural and object-oriented programming paradigms.
• Hands-on experience supporting large, business-critical or legacy enterprise systems.
• Willingness and experience working with COBOL applications.
• Experience working across the full SDLC, including production support.
• Experience in CI/CD-driven development environments.
• Experience configuring YAML-based pipelines or deployments.
• Intermediate SQL skills.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale legacy enterprise systems.
• Experience collaborating with DevOps or platform engineering teams.
• Familiarity with automated testing and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience working in Agile, product-aligned, or stream-aligned teams.
• Knowledge of the life insurance and annuities industry (FLMI preferred or willingness to obtain).

The Pay Range For This Role Is

90,000 - 125,000 USD per year (Rosemont)