COBOL Developer

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

💵 ₹1M - ₹8M / year

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Weekday (YC W21)

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • HR Tech • SaaS

Weekday is a modern recruitment platform that combines AI technologies with a vast database of potential candidates, aiming to streamline the hiring process for companies in India. They offer various services, including a proactive outreach approach that helps employers connect with top talent, as well as tools for candidates to easily apply for jobs. Weekday's emphasis on candidate engagement through multiple channels, including email, WhatsApp, and phone calls, sets it apart in the competitive landscape of recruitment agencies.

📋 Description

• Walk through COBOL repositories authored by the candidate, explaining program structure, business logic, and design decisions • Write, review, and debug COBOL programs, including copybooks, JCL, and file handling (VSAM, sequential, indexed) • Evaluate AI-generated COBOL code for correctness, style, and maintainability • Provide clear written feedback • Create realistic tasks and test cases based on real-world mainframe and batch-processing scenarios • Document legacy patterns and modernization approaches, including COBOL-to-Java/C# migration and refactoring monolithic programs • Improve how modern AI systems understand, write, and modernize COBOL

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on COBOL development • Created and own at least one meaningful COBOL repository (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or private codebase) • Strong grasp of COBOL divisions, data structures (PIC clauses, COMP/COMP-3, REDEFINES, OCCURS), and procedural logic • Experience with JCL and at least one of CICS, DB2, IMS, or VSAM • Clear written English and ability to explain code to non-experts • Experience with IBM z/OS, Micro Focus COBOL, or GnuCOBOL (nice to have) • Work in banking, insurance, government, or other mainframe-heavy industries (nice to have) • Exposure to legacy modernization projects (nice to have) • Familiarity with a modern language such as Java, Python, or C# (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible hours • Remote work