Cobol Developer

BEC is a financial technology company creating IT solutions for Danish banks. Together, we enable their customers to invest online, take out loans and transfer money. In other words, everything it takes to run a bank.

We have 1,700+ employees spread across five locations in Denmark and Poland. We collaborate in a flat hierarchy with a high degree of mutual trust. Here, great ideas have no rank, and we invite everybody to chip in to create the strongest banking solutions for Danish society.

Cobol Developer

We are searching for a Problem solver

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Pension Integrators team which is located in Warsaw, Poland, and in Roskilde, Denmark.

As a developer at BEC, you will join a functional KanBan team, which is responsible for A to Z maintaining functionality in our pension area. The team consists of software engineers, business analysts, and a team architect reporting to the development manager. The team is a part of the omnichannel domain and delivers maintenance and support on 4 different Pension-related systems.

Two of the pension systems are third-party solutions that the team maintains integrations to. Collaboration with third party vendors is a natural part of everyday life. In addition, the team also maintains its own pension systems on the BEC mainframe. BEC has a general strategy to decouple mainframe integrations by creating API for integrations going forward. You can expect to contribute to this. In addition, we are also aspiring to start establishing automated test for as much of our codebase as possible.

In BEC you will join a community of over 60 experienced Mainframe developers with an average experience of over 8 years.

Primary tasks and responsibilities include:

1. Investigating incidents in COBOL and Java based components
2. Renewing certificates and keeping security for applications up to date
3. Monitoring and actively reacting to alerts and warnings in relation to 4 Pension systems
4. Communicating with vendors and customers when errors occur
5. Assistance in maintenance of test environments (RHEL on Openshift and MS SQL databases)
6. Investigate systems on OpenShift Container Platform
7. Working with JN Data, our hosting vendor, on OPC jobs using JCL
8. Maintaining and improving existing solutions
9. Preparing technical and procedural documentation required for software
10. Together with the team working on achieving the team goals

You will also work with:

1. Helping to establish automated testing for the solutions

To succeed you will have:

1. Basic understanding of mainframe development in Cobol
2. Experience in Java
3. Understanding of agile/scrum methodologies and a demonstrated ability to contribute to an agile development environment
4. To be self-driven, proactive and don’t be shy to express your opinion
5. Basic knowledge of Windows Server environment
6. To be adaptive towards change, curious to learn and understand the business objectives
7. To be a team player with focus on working together as a team
8. Demonstrative analytical skills and come with innovative solutions
9. With colleagues in teams distributed in Denmark and Poland, you must master English at a high level both in writing and orally.

It’s nice-to-have:

It would be nice if you have experience with some of: Git/BitBucket, JIRA, API, Spring framework, Jenkins, ServiceNow, API testing tools

Be your best self with BEC’s benefits

We offer a diverse range of benefits for our employees. Here are just a few of them:

1. Flexible working hours (core time between 9:00 and 15:00) and hybrid value-driven approach to remote work (we would like to see each other in the office 3 days weekly)
2. Mental health support
3. Free lunch at the office
4. Referral bonus up to PLN 10,000
5. PLN 600 on a benefit platform a month
6. Passion clubs and social events (Tennis, salsa dancing, board games, family picnics and more)

What does the recruitment process look like?

1. Send us your CV: We want to get to know you
2. Screening call: Let’s chat and see if we’re a match
3. Technical test: Show off your knowledge
4. Meet our talent partner and technical expert: Learn more about the job, BEC Poland, and tell us more about your skills and experience.
5. Meet your future manager and team: See who you’ll be working closely with.
6. Time to sign the contract: We’re ready to welcome you to BEC

If you have any questions related to the position, please contact Anastasiia Bondarenko who is responsible for the recruitment process.

Make us aware of your talent

We are an equal opportunities employer. We hire top talent regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, and age. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. See our full list of vacancies at

You can also learn more about BEC by browsing our company culture book: wearebec.pdf