Lead Software Engineer I

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world. Lead Software Engineer I – Stanley Access Technologies, Farmington, CT Stanley Access Technologies , a division of Allegion,   is recognized as an industry leader in the manufacturing, installation, and servicing of automatic doors. Our growing product and service offerings have driven significant growth for our service business. Join our world class team of diligent problem solvers, innovators, fresh thinkers, and communicators who excite and inspire others.   Lead Software Engineer I Allegion is looking for a passionate Lead Software Engineer to work as part of a highly engaged small team within a global organization of 12,000+ employees, representing 30+ brands (including Schlage, Von Duprin, LCN and Stanley) focused on safety, security and access management.  You’ll work on solutions that will enable seamless access and help keep you and your loved ones safe and secure where they work, live and thrive. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.   What You Will Do: Collaborate with leads to define and communicate architecture and technical standards across multiple products and domains Partner with product managers and stakeholders to translate business problems into feasible technical solutions including identifying risks, dependencies, and trade-offs. Serve as the technical liaison between development teams and business/product management and are expected to discuss technical trade-offs, timelines, and impacts in business conversations. Provide hands-on technical leadership: design components, implement code, perform code reviews, and help unblock execution. Drive cross-functional collaboration with electrical, mechanical, systems, and test engineers where applicable to ensure integrated product deliveries. Promote engineering best practices around testing, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and secure design. Collaborate with security teams and follow Allegion product security guidelines to build secure-by-design systems. Proactively identify security risks, propose mitigations, and drive timely fixes for vulnerabilities and incidents. Lead threat modeling and security risk assessments as part of design and release activities Create, collaborate and maintain technical and design documentation (architecture diagrams, API specs, software design documents, interface control documents etc.) to ensure knowledge sharing, consistent implementations, and smoother handoffs across teams. Facilitate design reviews, maintain versioned design artifacts, and ensure documentation is kept current with implementations and release notes. Mentor and coach engineers on architecture, secure coding, design decisions, and coding techniques; raise the technical capability of the team. Help estimate effort, assess cost/benefit of changes, and contribute to proposals, planning and scheduling. Support production systems, releases, deployments, participate in incident response, and work with product support team to address issues in a timely manner. What You Need to Succeed: 8+ years software engineering experience preferred, with a strong track record of designing systems and guiding teams across multiple domains. Proven experience acting as a solution architect or senior technical lead who can both set architecture and contribute hands-on to implementation. Comfortable working across the stack — backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps and QA. Able to learn new technologies quickly. We value the ability and desire to pick up new tools and apply them effectively. Strong communicator and collaborator who can translate technical trade-offs to business stakeholders and work effectively across cultures and time zones. Demonstrated experience with code review, mentoring, and raising the technical capability of teams. Agile mindset and experience working in Agile/Scrum teams. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; advanced degrees or certifications are a plus. Experience or strong interest in IoT / industrial IoT systems is a plus. Familiarity with AWS IoT Core and related device/cloud integration is especially desirable. Familiarity with AWS, Java / Spring Boot, Docker, Kotlin (Android), Angular, Flutter, and Django is preferred, but specific tools are secondary to learning ability and engineering judgment. Why Work for Us?   Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:   You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others.  With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.  You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development.  As we grow, we want you to grow with us.   You want a culture that promotes work-life balance.  Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!   You want to work for an award-winning company that invests in its people. Allegion is proud to be a recipient of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the second year in a row, recognizing our commitment to employee engagement, strengths-based development, and unlocking human potential.  What You’ll Get from Us:  Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”    Unlimited Paid Time Off  A commi