Senior RPGLE Developer

About the role

Prime Inc is seeking an experienced Senior RPGLE Developer to design, build, and maintain IBM i (AS/400) applications. Experience supporting transportation, trucking, or logistics operations is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain applications in RPGLE and fully free-format RPG, CL, and embedded SQL on IBM i.
• Maintain and help modernize legacy RPG III/RPG400 programs.
• Write SQL for Db2 for i, including complex joins, stored procedures, triggers, views, and user-defined functions.
• Analyze production issues, perform root cause analysis, and deliver timely fixes with minimal disruption to 24/7 operations.
• Build and support integrations between the IBM i and external systems via web services/REST APIs and third-party platforms.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications and working software.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Document application designs, data flows, and operational procedures.

Requirements

• Knowledge background in transportation, trucking, freight brokerage, 3PL, or logistics.
• Familiarity with order entry, dispatch, load planning, driver settlement, carrier pay, fuel tax/IFTA, imaging, or billing workflows.
• Ability to work directly with business users and translate operational needs into technical solutions.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• 7+ years of professional development experience with RPGLE / ILE RPG on the IBM i platform.
• Strong understanding of free-format RPG, ILE concepts, RPG III/RPG400 and embedded SQL.
• Experience with CL programming, display files and subfiles, printer files, and DDS.
• Experience with debugging tools, job logs, and diagnosing issues in a live production environment.
• Experience with a transportation management system (TMS) like Innovative Computing Corporation (ICC), or a comparable homegrown IBM i platform.
• Experience with mileage and routing engines (PC*MILER, Rand McNally) and telematics/ELD integrations.
• Experience with integration with external platforms (HTTPAPI, JSON/XML parsing with DATA-INTO / DATA-GEN / YAJL).
• Experience with JAVA, Python, C#.
• Physical