Senior IBM RPG Engineer – Hybrid, High Impact

Vermelo RPO; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care cash plan

Yearly bonus scheme

24 days annual leave

Life Assurance 4x annual salary

Vibrant, modern offices

Job summary

Markerstudy Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (RPG) to join a squad-driven development team. The role is hands-on, with end-to-end ownership of software features from design through deployment and support.

The ideal candidate has extensive IBM i RPG experience, modern tooling (VS Code, RDi) and strong API integration skills. Hybrid work with two days in either Manchester or Peterborough offices awaits.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as an IBM RPG Developer.
• Proficient RPG coding with modern IDEs (VS Code).
• Experience integrating RPG with REST/SOAP web services.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, JSON/XML parsing and data transformation.
• RPGLE strong, free and fixed formats.
• IBMi environment and tools (SEU, RDi, ACS, PDM, CL).
• Version control and CI/CD practices knowledge.
• Ability to estimate work and deliver with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy and support high‑quality RPG software features.
• Take end‑to‑end ownership from design to release and support.
• Break down complex work, provide reasoned estimates and identify risks.
• Produce technical designs and documentation with the squad.
• Apply SDLC processes, security controls and standards.
• Write clean production code and automated tests focusing on quality.
• Review peers' work via pairing and code reviews.
• Support production incidents and root-cause analysis.

Job description

Markerstudy Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (RPG) to join a squad-driven development team. The role is hands-on, with end-to-end ownership of software features from design through deployment and support.

The ideal candidate has extensive IBM i RPG experience, modern tooling (VS Code, RDi) and strong API integration skills. Hybrid work with two days in either Manchester or Peterborough offices awaits.