Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Home Automation Experience Team

Our Home Automation Experience (HAX) team owns the full home automation domain at Alarm.com including devices, device groups, rules, schedules, scenes, and automation-related notifications, for both customers and dealers, across web, mobile, and the backend services that make it all work. Alarm.com is a smart-home-as-a-service platform our products reach end customers through a network of professional security and smart-home dealers who install, configure, and support our systems, which means HAX builds for two distinct audiences with very different needs. If 'intuitive, accessible, reliable home automation' is the kind of problem you want to spend the next several years on, this is a good place to do it.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the HAX Team Automation Pod, you'll lead design and delivery of high-impact automation features end to end, from partnering with Product Management and Quality Engineering, mentoring engineers around you, to shaping technical direction in design reviews and architectural decisions. You'll focus primarily on backend development and data, infrastructure for all of our automation features including rules, schedules, and more.

Alarm.com is one of the few places you can build consumer products that ship at a consumer scale across this kind of technology surface (wireless, software, hardware/device) without changing companies. Engineers here go deep in their area and stay curious about everything else.

WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ALARM.COM?

• Lead and develop full stack software for a wide variety of platforms and technologies.
• Take part in the entire project life cycle, from requirements development to deployment with heavy cross-team collaboration
• Engage in the research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging project goals
• Write coherent, organized code. Ideal candidates must be comfortable working on a complicated codebase with high levels of abstraction
• Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly, and when to build a robust solution
• Work hard and be flexible: we have quick development cycles, evolving requirements, and lots of cross-team collaboration
• Bring your ideas! We want our engineers to collaborate on product development, not blindly build to a spec

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

We are seeking someone who has:

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong backend engineering skills building and maintaining HTTP APIs/services (REST and/or GraphQL)
• Deep working knowledge of object-oriented design, SOLID principles, and common design patterns, with a track record of applying them to real architectural decisions (Experience with C#, .NET Core is a plus)
• Solid database fundamentals including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and migration strategy
• Contributed comfortably across both modern and legacy framework codebases
• Fluency with the day-to-day toolchain of a modern engineer version control (Git workflows), CI/CD, package managers, structured data formats (JSON, YAML), and observability tooling
• Experience designing reliable, scalable systems with attention to performance, resiliency, and maintainability
• Demonstrated testing depth across unit, integration, and end-to-end test layers
• Strong debugging and operational skills to diagnose and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and traces
• Experience providing feedback to peers and influencing code quality through design and code reviews
• Track records of ramping into unfamiliar stacks and shipping production work in them
• Treats engineering as a craft that pursues mastery through deliberate practice, post-incident learning, and reflection on past decisions; comfortable revisiting and revising prior architectural choices when new information arrives
• Experience leading projects to completion and mentoring other engineers
• Proven ability to communicate and collaborate across product, design, and QA and drive technical decisions through delivery
• Experience scoping and decomposing ambiguous problems into shippable increments
• Experience articulating tradeoffs explicitly (knowing when/when not to apply patterns)

We would love if you have some of the below (but it is fine if you dont):

• Experience working on If this Then that style automation systems
• Experience working with assembly or low-level programming languages
• Frontend engineering experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (for example, React, Ember, Vue, or Angular)
• Experience working with enterprise-scale microservices architecture
• Familiarity with event-driven/distributed system design and distributed event streaming platforms (Kafka)
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining code quality and safety
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized deployments (Docker + Kubernetes)
• Exposure to legacy-to-modern framework migrations
• Working knowledge of application security fundamentals (auth, authorization, input validation, secrets handling)

Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.

WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers.
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team!
• Gain well rounded experience:Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work.
• Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week.

COMPANY INFO

Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutionsincluding security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellnessis delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people.

For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

COMPANY BENEFITS

Our total rewards package is designed to support you holisticallyin your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment.

Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Notice To Third Party Agencies:
Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com.