Staff Software Engineer, Middleware - Java

Chamberlain Group (CG) is a global leader in intelligent access and Blackstone portfolio company. Powered by our myQ technology, we make access simple and secure for millions of homeowners, businesses, and communities worldwide. Our flagship brands, LiftMaster®  and Chamberlain® , are found in 51+ million homes, and 14 million+ people rely on the myQ®  app daily.

myQ is a Chamberlain product that connects Garage Door Openers, Lights, and other devices to a constantly connected cloud in order to provide a user benefit that includes away from home access control, notification, access history, and scheduled device commands.

This role is responsible for developing and maintaining development platforms for the Chamberlain myQ program. This includes, but is not limited to middleware that serves as the foundation for myQ residential and commercial platforms. To accomplish this the Sr. Lead Software Engineer will work with other developers as well as other functions such as Engineering, Product Ownership, Marketing, Quality Assurance, Operations, and Customer Service in order to understand and translate product requirements into technical requirements, verify development matches product owner expectations, as well as maintain a high quality code base.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary point person and scrum team representative for interactions with product owner, front end, middleware, dev-ops, and firmware functional teams to implement new features
• Participate in technical assessment, scoping and management of changes to the code base on new business requirements, product enhancements and other change requests across multiple scrum teams
• Analyze requirements, collaborate with architects and senior engineers to produce thoughtful software designs of large scope and high complexity
• Work using Agile methodologies such as Scrum to develop middleware
• Lead and contribute to technical discussions in community of practice, design review, pull request, or other technical meeting forums
• Ensure adherence to coding standards and other best practices to create reusable code
• Maintain platform specific software knowledge of key software application features, frameworks, and components in myQ middleware
• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior and senior engineers to increase software capability of the middleware development team
• Collaborate with other Chamberlain domain experts, such as infrastructure, database, and front end, as the team develops features and platform enhancements
• Lead offshore teams to design and develop features, and burn down technical debt
• Stay current on modern technologies and innovations which can further enhance and improve the commercial success of the MyQ connectivity solution
• Responsible for complying with the security requirements set forth by the Information Security team and the established ISO 27001 Security Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities Document found in the ISMS Document Library
• Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; managers should also ensure compliance across their teams
• Protect CGI’s reputation by keeping information confidential
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies
• Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or engineering related field
• An advanced degree in directly applicable area of study may substitute for up to two (2) years of job related experience
• 8 years of job-related experience
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum is required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Thorough understanding of software development and design principles
• Thorough understanding of cloud-based development
• Ability to lead and work well with others, provide clear direction to multiple development teams across teams and geographies
• Understanding of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) tools, frameworks and deployment processes
• Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and diagnose issues within an organization
• Ability to estimate work, support project plan creation, and report out progress to functional management at a platform level
• Experience with Java technology stack, including Java SE, Java EE, JDBC, Hibernate
• Experience with dependency injection
• Experience with Eclipse, GIT
• Experience with SQL, No-SQL databases, messaging systems
• Experience in creating technical documentation
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time domestically and internationally

Preferred Job Requirements:

• Experience defining process improvements and implementing change

Chamberlain Group wants all of its employees to succeed and encourages people of all backgrounds to apply. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, and you’ll be considered for this role regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, ancestry; marital, disabled or veteran status. We’re committed to fostering an environment where people of all lived experiences feel welcome.  

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence [email protected].

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