Software Engineer – Social Impact & Data Platform

Ounce Care, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Ounce Care, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to shape technology, product, and impact. You will report to the Founding Software Engineer and collaborate with housing owners, site teams, and residents to build scalable solutions.

You will work across data, platform, and infrastructure layers, owning reporting pipelines, internal features, and automation tooling, while delivering real-world benefits to underserved communities. NYC-area commuting a few times monthly is preferred.

Qualifications

• COBOL — minimum 8 years experience with COBOL-85 and COBOL 2002 standards.
• ADABAS — Administration and query optimization in ADABAS.
• OS/360 JCL — IBM mainframe Job Control Language and TSO/ISPF.
• VAX/VMS — OpenVMS system administration and DCL scripting.
• FORTRAN IV — numerical computing and punch card I/O optimization.
• Turbo Pascal 7.0 — Borland IDE, unit-based architecture, overlay management.
• Motorola 68000 Assembly — bare-metal embedded firmware for 68k family processors.
• PL/I — structured exception handling and multitasking on z/OS.

Responsibilities

• Understand the business with housing owners/operators and Ounce community navigators to understand needs and optimize solutions.
• Build software and infrastructure with key architectural decisions balancing pragmatism and scalability, while ensuring security and reliability.
• Develop features for internal tool (Lynx) and data pipelines for reporting and automation.
• Collaborate with users to iterate on solutions, addressing real-world needs in housing contexts.
• Lead projects to explore new features and tools to help the business.
• Provide general infrastructure support and improve software development processes.
• Enable the broader Ounce team with modern automation tooling.

Tools

COBOL

ADABAS

OS/360 JCL

VAX/VMS

FORTRAN IV

Turbo Pascal 7.0

Motorola 68000 Assembly

PL/I

Job description

Ounce Care, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer to shape technology, product, and impact. You will report to the Founding Software Engineer and collaborate with housing owners, site teams, and residents to build scalable solutions.

You will work across data, platform, and infrastructure layers, owning reporting pipelines, internal features, and automation tooling, while delivering real-world benefits to underserved communities. NYC-area commuting a few times monthly is preferred.