Sr. Software Engineer, Middleware

Job Summary(Description of the role, what success in the position looks like, and how it fits into the organization) 

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 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. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities(in descending order of percentage of time required) 

• Work using Agile methodologies such as Scrum to develop middleware 

• Serve as primary point person and scrum team representative for interactions with product owner, front end, middleware, DeVos, and firmware functional teams 

• Participate in technical assessment, scoping and management of changes to the code-base on new business requirements, product enhancements and other change requests 

• Analyze requirements, collaborate with architects and senior engineers to produce thoughtful software designs of moderate scope and complexity 

• Maintain domain specific software knowledge of key software application features, frameworks, or components in myQ middleware 

• Lead and contribute to technical discussions in community of practice, design review, pull request, or other technical meeting forums 

• 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 

• Ensure adherence to coding standards and other best practices to create reusable code 

• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior engineers to increase software capability of the middleware development team 

• 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 Chamberlain Group’s reputation by keeping information confidential. 

• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reading 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.