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What you will do:
The future is being built today, and Johnson Controls is making that future more productive, safe and secure and more sustainable. We are harnessing the power of cloud, data analytics, the internet of Things, and user design thinking to deliver on the promise of safe intelligent buildings and smart cities that connect communities in ways that make people's lives - and the world - better. 

As a Software Developer for Life Safety Fire Detection Applications at Johnson Controls, you’ll be part of our diverse global team based in Westford, MA. You will use your analytical thinking skills combined with your experience in applying design patterns and best practices, structured and disciplined development processes and engineering principles to developing robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions that are user friendly and support business priorities.

Our fire detection products are embedded in restaurants and buildings you visit every day. You will analyze, design, program, debug, modify test and implement software used in local, networked, cloud-based or internet-related applications for Fire Alarm Systems. 

How you will do it:

• Participate as a member of software development team and lead development in a specific software component to deliver business features and software components according to established delivery schedules


• Investigate and analyze new or existing technologies, third party software and development tools to solve technical challenges and issues in order to meet specific design specifications


• Create detailed software designs under the guidance of the technical leadership using well known industry accepted methodologies and tools


• Independently investigate, understand and analyze issues with existing and legacy systems and products to propose fixes for existing issues as well providing assistance to the testing and documentation of such changes


• Independently develop software using industry well known software languages and tools and company established standard and guidelines and industry best practices


• Independently develop software that conforms to the designs, is testable and maintainable


• Work closely with quality assurance to provide assistance in defining test cases, creating, reviewing and executing test plans


• Review product documentation and technical instructions for completeness and accuracy

What we look for:
Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science


• 5-7 years direct hands-on software development experience


• Proficient in Object Oriented, interface driven design and implementation


• Proficient in Microsoft .NET Framework and related development languages and tools


• Understanding or Knowedge of C#, MVVM, WPF, WCF, Entity Framework and/or LINQ


• Understanding of Windows operation system, Windows based web and application server platform and their its security models

Preferred:

• Understanding of Linux, Unix based Operating Systems


• Understanding of language such as C/C++


• Understanding of web technologies such as Meteor JS, React, Node.js, MQTT, JavaScript, jQuery


• Understanding of database technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, Mongo DB


• Understanding of implementing database driven and service oriented design and architecture


• Understanding modern unit testing practice and major vendor frameworks


• Understanding large scale, multi-threaded and asynchronous design and implementation


• Understanding of web-based communication protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, Web Socket, UDP etc.


• Understanding of security protocols and models for web-based applications and development framework


• Experience with source control systems and change management tools (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Subversion, etc.)

​​​​​​​Johnson Controls is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit www.johnsoncontrols.com/careers.