Director, Product Engineering

Trustwave helps businesses fight cybercrime, protect data and reduce security risk. With cloud and managed security services, integrated technologies and a team of security experts, ethical hackers and researchers, Trustwave enables businesses to transform the way they manage their information security and compliance programs.

We are currently looking for a talented, highly motivated hands-on Director to work with our Product Engineering Team in Chicago.

• Work in small, agile teams to design, prototype and build new product offerings and enhance existing products and tools
• Collaborate with Product Management to and identify, prioritize and document detailed product requirements
• Design, develop and document application and framework code in Java, Flex and other object-oriented programming languages
• Create robust automated unit/functional test suites and deployment scripts
• Work with internal QA team on system, performance and acceptance testing

• Familiarity with agile/iterative development methodologies (XP, SCRUM, etc.)
• Strong object-oriented design and Java programming skills, including experience with leading open source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate and JUnit
• Experience developing rich application UIs using Adobe Flex is highly desirable
• Familiarity with C/C++ or other object-oriented languages (e.g. Groovy, Python, Ruby) is also desirable
• Solid relational DBMS skills using MySQL, PostgreSQL or other DBMS products
• Real-world experience building very large scale, high availability applications
• Experience developing web services using XML-RPC, SOAP or REST approaches

General Requirements

• Ability to work with distributed teams in a dynamic, iterative development process
• Occasional overnight travel to other Trustwave offices in the U.S. may be required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• BS in Computer Science or Engineering is preferred
• Familiarity with the security industry is desirable but not required

Education:

• We prefer college-educated applicants, but at minimum, high school diploma or equivalent is required for employment.