Overview
Skills
Job Details
Onsite Kontich, Belgium
To strengthen our EU R&D team, we are currently looking for a back-end developer. The job will entail maintaining and extending internally developed runtime support libraries: analyzing and solving reported issues, implementing new features, and tuning performance.These libraries implement the core functionality needed to replace certain legacy systems (e.g. IDMS, IMS, Natural, COBOL, VSAM, Adabas, ). Each library typically has two implementations: one in Java and one in C#.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Your responsibility will be the ongoing maintenance and extension of multiple runtime support libraries, as well as providing support analyzing and fixing issues reported against these libraries. Occasionally you also organize small training sessions with our internal project teams and customers, to help them understand how to use the support libraries that you maintain.
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
Required:
Good programming skills in both C# and Java
Passion for keeping up with the latest evolutions in technology
Interest in learning about legacy and low-level technologies (COBOL, Natural, Adabas, assembler, 3270, )
Good verbal and written communication skills in English
High attention to detail
Highly autonomous and willing to take initiative
Embedded development experience
Experience
Working in a professional role developing C# for at least 5 years
Working in a professional role developing Java for at least 5 years
Interest in and understanding of concepts like processes, threads, relational databases, network protocols, algorithmic complexity
Experience working with relational databases
Experience working on Windows and Linux
Performance-tuning experience in Java or C#
Participation in open-source projects