Staff Software Engineer (IoT)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (IoT): Defining architectural patterns and leading decomposition of monolithic systems into maintainable services for a high-scale customer experience platform with an accent on reliability, scalability, and technical leadership. Focus on designing change-absorbing systems, driving high-leverage decisions in data modeling, APIs, and infrastructure, and mentoring the team through complex migrations.

Centennial, Colorado. Work from the office 4 days a week. No sponsorship for employment authorization or immigration support.

Base Salary Range $150,000 - $165,000 USD

Company

Leading IoT platform for intelligently connected properties, providing security, monitoring, automation, and more to millions of homeowners and businesses across North America.

What you will do

• Define architectural patterns and technical standards for the CX team.
• Lead decomposition of monolithic systems into independently deployable services with stable migration strategies.
• Design systems that handle evolving requirements and increasing scale.
• Drive decisions on data modeling, API contracts, service boundaries, and infrastructure.
• Identify and address architectural drift and technical debt.
• Set standards for testing, observability, deployment; conduct code and design reviews.
• Collaborate with managers on technical investments; write production code and prototype solutions.
• Model effective use of AI tools across the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years professional software development with progression into technical leadership.
• Deep hands-on experience in systems design and backend architecture with proven examples.
• Experience with high-scale, high-availability services handling latency, throughput, reliability SLAs.
• Distributed systems: service decomposition, communication, data consistency, failure isolation.
• Strong OOP skills; C# or Java a plus; deep SQL expertise in schema design, optimization, indexing.
• Ability to lead technical direction collaboratively.

Nice to have

• Experience leading monolith-to-microservices migrations including organizational aspects.
• Event-driven architecture and messaging systems like Kafka at scale.
• Familiarity with customer experience: onboarding, account management, notifications.
• Experience with Android (Kotlin/Java), iOS (Swift), or frontend frameworks.
• Building platforms or shared services for other teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborate with high achievers in a dynamic environment with real responsibility from day one.
• Work-life balance with paid vacation increasing with tenure, holidays, wellness time, maternity/bonding leave.
• Medical plans with subsidies, HSA with company contribution, 401(k) with employer match.
• Company-paid disability and life insurance.
• Collaborative, casual environment emphasizing community, fun, and in-person collaboration 4 days a week.