Senior Director of Operations - Software Engineering

Do you love tinkering with devices? Have you automated your own home? Do you love to mentor and collaborate with other engineers?

If the above holds true for you, then we would love to talk to you! Alarm.com is looking for a Senior Director, Software Operations to join our team. We’re doing work in smart home technology, video analytics, large scale data processing, and much more. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a variety of technology domains and support projects from design through deployment.

Very few small companies innovate and develop across such a broad range of technologies as Alarm.com. We’re looking for someone who can help optimize and operationalize across that breadth. You will own department initiatives, create development processes, and help integrate those into our teams. When necessary to further operational goals, you will own the development of tooling and core platform components.

Alarm.com has experienced significant growth in our engineering department, and we’re looking for someone that is excited to mentor and collaborate with more junior engineers and managers. A core mission of this role is to help the entire department continuously improve, whether that’s a brand new engineer or senior leadership.

This position is ideal for the candidate who seeks a collaborative culture and is excited to work closely with smart and highly productive people across domains. Getting to work with cutting edge software and hardware to develop outstanding consumer products is the icing on the cake.

WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ALARM.COM?

• Be a mentor to our growing engineering department.
• Lead department initiatives and work across teams to bring them to life.
• Help us measure, evaluate, and optimize our development processes across the entire project life cycle.
• Engage in the research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging problems.
• Work hard and be flexible: we have quick development cycles, evolving requirements, and lots of cross-team collaboration.
• Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly, and when to build a robust solution. Your work will be used by multiple business units, so you will need to consider many use cases when developing.
• Bring your ideas! We will supply the goals, you will identify problems and bring the solutions.
• Other duties as assigned

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of professional software development experience
• 8+ years leading engineers, teams, and/or initiatives
• Experience leading and/or mentoring other engineers
• Strong object-oriented programming skills; C# and .NET a plus
• Significant database design and development experience
• Knowledge of networking concepts, principles, and technologies
• Experience influencing other teams to help achieve shared goals strongly preferred
• Experience working with physical systems a major plus

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every one of the qualifications listed. We understand talented people have a mixture of background experience and can learn new technologies and languages.

What's in it for you?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. You will be able to learn something new and impart your knowledge across the department.
• Make an immediate impact: You can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You will be empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Work with real stuff: You will write code that interacts with the physical world. You’ll be able to see your work in action with the numerous IoT devices we work with every day.
• 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.
• Be Empowered: We don’t want to micro-manage you. We barely want to tell you what to do. We want you to own initiatives and bring your experience to make those products best in class.
• Work with the latest technologies: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of IoT and SaaS technology. Our tech stack includes C#, .NET, SQL Server, Kafka, Ember.js, as well as native iOS and Android applications.
• Focus on fun: Alarm.com places high value on our team culture. We even have a committee dedicated to hosting a stand-