Senior Software Engineer - Akana Sola
Perforce Software Private LimitedJob Description
Senior Software Engineer - Akana Sola
Perforce is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Akana Sola team. Sola is Akana's mainframe API enablement product, exposing COBOL, CICS, and IMS/DB2 assets as REST/SOAP APIs. This is a genuine growth opportunity: mainframe skills are increasingly rare and highly valued, and this role is built for an engineer with a strong Java/API foundation who wants to develop a differentiated, in-demand specialization in mainframe technologies. You'll work directly with, and be mentored by, senior engineers on a small, highly specialized team maintaining a product that supports mission-critical customer applications. We work in an agile product development process with core values of results, teamwork, ownership, quality of work, problem solving, and service to customers.
Responsibilities
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of hands-on software development experience.
- Strong foundation in Java and API technologies.
- Genuine interest in specializing in mainframe/legacy systems technology as a long-term career direction.
- Working knowledge of Java, used for the Sola IDE and one of the Sola runtime implementations.
- Experience with RESTful and SOAP web services, including how they're designed, secured, and exposed from backend systems.
- Familiarity or hands-on experience with API management gateways (e.g., Akana, Apigee, MuleSoft, Kong, or similar) — Sola's core purpose is exposing mainframe assets as governed, gateway-managed APIs.
- Working knowledge of JavaScript, used extensively within the Sola IDE.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, including DB2, Oracle, MS SQL, and/or MySQL.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD tools and pipelines.
Requirement
- These skills will be developed on the job under mentorship from our senior mainframe engineers. Any prior exposure is a strong plus, but eagerness to learn matters more than existing depth.
- COBOL - the primary language, by volume, behind the legacy Sola runtime that all customers rely on.
- CICS application development, as Sola runs under CICS and uses several of its system functions.
- DB2 programming (embedded SQL, performance-aware query design).
- JCL (Job Control Language) for mainframe batch processing.
- Batch COBOL, since Sola supports exposing batch programs as APIs and calling APIs from batch programs.
- IBM MQ Series as a supported transport layer within Sola.
- Mainframe Assembler, used for performance-critical functions such as parsing, the DOM API, and data conversions, and Natural, used for generating Natural Language artifacts — deeper, longer-term growth areas.
Development Practices
- Experience working with Git and version control systems.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
- Ability to independently learn, manage, and enhance existing codebases, including long-lived legacy systems.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities, with the composure to work under pressure — Sola customers run it in mission-critical applications, so issues often need time-critical resolution.
Communication & Collaboration
- Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to support product demos and pre-sales conversations as needed.
- Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership.
- Willingness to participate in on-call/off-hours rotation to support customers' mission-critical use of Sola.
Nice to Have
- UI development skills: JavaScript frameworks, Bootstrap, jQuery, etc.
- Experience with Python scripting or development.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Exposure to Linux on mainframe (zLinux), as some customers may elect to run the Sola Java runtime there.
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