Alarm.com logo

Software Technical Lead

Alarm.com
Boston, Massachusetts
Full Time
Posted December 4, 2025
$160k - $180k
Apply Now

Application opens on company website

Job Description

The Software Technical Lead for the Device Lifecycle Integrations team is responsible for overseeing the technical delivery of projects related to connected device platforms, ensuring high engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams to develop scalable, hardware-integrated software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead technical execution on key device lifecycle integration projects from discovery to deployment.
  • Translate stakeholder requirements into scalable software solutions.
  • Guide project planning, architecture, and implementation to ensure quality and timely delivery.
  • Mentor and support the growth of engineering team members.
  • Represent team work in cross-team forums with technical clarity.
  • Drive adoption of best practices in code review, documentation, and team workflows.
  • Identify and address project challenges, risks, and performance issues.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent work experience.
  • 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical or project leadership capacity.
  • Proven experience architecting, building, and delivering distributed or cloud-centered systems using .NET C# or a comparable technology stack.
  • Solid grasp of core networking technologies and principles, with the ability to design and troubleshoot systems that rely on reliable device connectivity.
  • Exposure to hardware integration or device-centric development environments with the ability to collaborate effectively with hardware teams and understand the challenges of tightly coupled software-hardware solutions.
  • Demonstrated history of technical project delivery and proactive ownership.
  • Track record in mentoring and developing engineers at multiple experience levels.
  • Skilled in maintaining high standards for code quality, technical debt management, and effective code reviews.
  • Clear and effective communication skills, capable of articulating technical direction and representing the team in technical and business settings.
  • Highly organized, results-oriented, and adept at managing competing priorities and shifting project demands.
  • Ability to translate business and stakeholder requirements into robust, scalable software solutions.
  • Experience guiding technical project planning, architecture, and implementation ensuring consistency, code quality, and timely results.
  • Mentoring and supporting the growth and development of engineers on the team, providing feedback and technical guidance.
  • Ability to represent the team’s work in cross-team or department forums with clarity and technical detail.
  • Drive adoption of best practices in code review, documentation, team workflows, and monitoring.
  • Proficiency in designing event-driven architectures using message brokers such as Apache Kafka or similar (preferred but not required).
  • Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes for large-scale deployment management (preferred but not required).
  • Advanced API development skills, including REST, gRPC, protocol buffers, and high-performance service-to-service communication (preferred but not required).
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server query optimization, performance tuning, and advanced features (preferred but not required).
  • Exposure to microservices resilience patterns, such as service mesh and circuit breakers (preferred but not required).
  • Experience implementing observability solutions including monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting for distributed systems (preferred but not required).
  • Familiarity with DevOps automation practices, such as infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and CI/CD (preferred but not required).
  • Understanding device communication protocols and experience overseeing large IoT device fleets (preferred but not required).

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range: $160,000 - $180,000 USD
Work environment perks: Casual dress work environment, paid holidays, wellness time, vacation increasing with tenure, paid maternity and bonding leave, company-paid disability and life insurance, FSAs, well-being resources and activities
Additional benefits: Subsidized medical plan options, HSA with generous company contribution, 401(k) with employer match

Ready to Apply?

Join Alarm.com and make an impact in renewable energy

Stay Updated on Sustainability Jobs

Get the latest renewable energy jobs and career tips delivered to your inbox.

More jobs at Alarm.com

Director, Finance IT Systems

Alarm.com
NEW
Tysons
Full Time
2d

Product Manager II

Alarm.com
NEW
Austin
Full Time
2d

Enterprise Sales Development Representative

Alarm.com
Liberty Lake
Full Time
3d
$75k-90k

More jobs in Boston, Massachusetts

Charles River Associates logo

Associate Cybersecurity Incident Response Forensic Services practice

Charles River Associates
Boston
Full Time
Dec 18
$93k-105k
Nexamp logo

Manager, Interconnection

Nexamp
Boston
Full Time
Dec 21
$150k-165k
Xpansiv logo

Associate, Client Success

Xpansiv
Boston
Full Time
Dec 29
$58k-62k