Technical Lead

IT Farmers Branch, Texas


Description

Brinks Home™ is a leader in the smart security industry, protecting over one million people across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Our platinum-grade protection is backed by award-winning customer service and expertly trained professionals.

We strive for the highest standards for our customers while fostering a positive work environment for our employees. We create a culture that fosters innovation, celebrates creativity, and encourages authenticity. Join us and be part of a collaborative team that is relentless in our pursuit of security for life.

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead who embodies our core values of Service, Accountability, Customer Focus, Growth, and Integrity. This role combines technical leadership with people leadership, guiding engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions while fostering collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

The Technical Lead partners across engineering teams to improve platform consistency, developer experience, DevOps maturity, and software delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the successful delivery of team initiatives while ensuring alignment with business priorities.
  • Provide technical guidance through architecture and code reviews while focusing on coaching, mentorship, and team development.
  • Foster a healthy, collaborative team culture by balancing workloads, removing blockers, and promoting psychological safety.
  • Drive Agile best practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to communicate priorities, manage expectations, and deliver successful outcomes.
  • Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development of engineering team members.
  • Establish consistent engineering standards, including AI-assisted development practices, and measure their impact on productivity and software quality.
  • Champion DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and engineering best practices to improve delivery efficiency and reliability.

Requirements:

Technical Skills

  • Strong software engineering background with the ability to review system designs, architecture, and code.
  • Experience with modern software architecture, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ability to identify technical risks and guide scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
  • Passion for improving developer productivity through tools, automation, and engineering standards.

Leadership Competencies

  • Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to influence across teams and build consensus.
  • Commitment to fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a continuous improvement mindset.

Growth Opportunities:

Promotion Readiness – Engineering Manager

Successful Technical Leads demonstrate the ability to:

  • Consistently deliver team outcomes aligned with business priorities.
  • Transition from individual technical ownership to effective people leadership.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop team members through regular feedback.
  • Build strong stakeholder relationships and manage expectations effectively.
  • Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
  • Use delivery and quality metrics to improve team performance and engagement.
  • Lead with empathy, accountability, and servant leadership principles.

Promotion Readiness – Architect

Successful Technical Leads demonstrate the ability to:

  • Define technical direction for initiatives with long-term business impact.
  • Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
  • Mentor engineers on architecture, system design, and engineering best practices.
  • Anticipate scalability, security, performance, and reliability challenges.
  • Collaborate across teams to drive technical alignment and platform consistency.
  • Influence engineering strategy and technical standards beyond their immediate team.

Benefits: 

  • Brinks Home recognizes the value of benefits for you and your family, so we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits program:
    • Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) with Employer Match, Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays, HSA/FSA, Life & AD&D Insurance, Disability Coverage, Maternity/Parental Leave, Mental & Physical Health Benefits, Employee Resource Groups, Volunteer Hours, Discounted Equipment & Monitoring, and Employee Referral Program.
  • To learn more about our company culture and career opportunities, please visit our LinkedIn and Career Page.

Brinks Home provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 

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