Lead Middleware Developer

This role is responsible for developing and maintaining development platforms for the application program. This includes, but is not limited to middleware that serves as the foundation for 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 application middleware
• Lead and contribute to technical discussions in community of practice, design review, pull request, or other technical meeting forums
• Collaborate with other company 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
• Protect company'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

• 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

• 6 years of job-related experience
• Deep understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum is required
• Experience in creating technical documentation is required
• Experience with Microsoft technology stack, including .NET, C#, Azure, SQL, Visual Studio
• Experience with GIT, No SQL databases, messaging systems
• Experience in creating technical documentation
• Experience with message based distributed computing systems. MQTT
• Experience with Document databases (Cosmos, Couch DB) etc

• Thorough understanding of OOP, SOLID, RESTful services, dependency injection and cloud development
• Ability to work well with others and provide clear direction to a development team
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Understanding of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) tools, frameworks and deployment processes is required
• Ability to interface with Product Owners and Scrum Masters for ticket/issue management
• Ability to lead junior and senior engineers on projects
• Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and self-diagnose issues in software development
• Ability to estimate work, support project plan creation, and report out progress to functional management at a project level

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time domestically and internationally