Cobol Developer: Legacy Systems with AI-Driven Modernization

Caixa Mágica Software; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Life Insurance

Tech equipment

SIM Card / personal smartphone

Team events and outings

Training in latest technologies

Job summary

Caixa Mágica Software in Lisbon seeks an experienced Cobol Developer to maintain a vital legacy platform that processes millions of daily transactions. You will translate business needs into technical specs, refactor with AI-assisted tools, and build tests to ensure reliability.

Join a dynamic team delivering secure, compliant systems in a fast-moving financial environment, with modern tooling and ongoing professional growth.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional COBOL development experience in finance.
• Expertise in Microfocus COBOL and legacy system maintenance.
• Familiarity with PowerHouse or Eloquence technologies.
• Hands-on with DevOps tools and Git version control.
• Experience in Agile environments and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into technical specs and maintain legacy COBOL code.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to refactor and safely modify components.
• Build and maintain unit and integration test suites.
• Support acceptance testing and CI/CD adoption.
• Document changes and ensure security/regulatory compliance.

Skills

COBOL development

Financial domain

Agile

AI-assisted tooling

Education

Bachelor's in CS

Tools

PowerHouse 4GL

Eloquence (Marxmeier)

Ansible

ToolChain

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Caixa Mágica Software in Lisbon seeks an experienced Cobol Developer to maintain a vital legacy platform that processes millions of daily transactions. You will translate business needs into technical specs, refactor with AI-assisted tools, and build tests to ensure reliability.

Join a dynamic team delivering secure, compliant systems in a fast-moving financial environment, with modern tooling and ongoing professional growth.