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.