Vijay Nagar in Indore has a COBOL Developer opening, full time, on site, with a software team maintaining mainframe systems that a surprising number of core business processes still quietly run through. Two and a half years of experience is the expectation, and this is a genuinely different kind of software job than most modern web development roles.
The work covers designing and building software components in COBOL, working closely with product and QA teams, reviewing code, and troubleshooting issues reported by users, most of whom are internal teams relying on batch jobs that run overnight and simply need to be correct every single time. Mainframe work rewards a different kind of patience than fast-iteration web development does.
A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with proficiency in the relevant languages, tools, and frameworks used for this role. The team is realistic that COBOL experience specifically is rarer than it used to be, and candidates with strong general programming fundamentals and genuine willingness to learn the mainframe environment are seriously considered even with limited direct COBOL exposure.
Familiarity with JCL for job scheduling, any exposure to DB2 or a similar mainframe database, and genuine comfort with a slower, more deliberate release cadence than most modern development teams use, since a mistake in a batch job here can mean an entire overnight process needs to be rerun.
Vijay Nagar's growing IT services cluster in Indore has attracted plenty of modern web development shops, but this team's mainframe work is a genuinely different niche, supporting business processes that have quietly run this way for decades. Naukri Mitra has listed a few roles from this employer, and developers who've joined recently describe the job security in this niche as real; fewer people are entering COBOL work each year, and the systems aren't disappearing anytime soon.
Interviews include a technical round on COBOL fundamentals and a discussion of your approach to debugging an unfamiliar batch job failure. Candidates who describe a methodical, patient debugging process tend to interview well.
This role is based at Vijay Nagar, Indore, pin code 452010, five days a week on site. Pay is up to ₹71,000 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within five weeks.