Lead Software Systems Engineer

At Delta Faucet, we are committed to transforming everyday experiences with water through innovative products and exceptional service. As a leader in the plumbing industry, we take pride in our dedication to quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our mission to create solutions that inspire and elevate the lives of all our customers. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us on this journey toward inclusivity and excellence.

Your Role at Delta Faucet:

If you’re excited by the idea of building innovative, software-defined consumer products—and inspired by the opportunity to reshape how people experience water—this is a role where you can make a real difference. Join Delta Faucet Company (DFC), an industry market leader, as we create new ways to experience and use water in the smart home of the future.

In this role, you’ll influence the smart home industry through advancing Smart Water. As Lead Software Systems Engineer, you’ll work with a talented team to create IoT-enabled products and digital experiences that make water use smarter, more efficient, and better for everyday life. Your work will help shape the kitchens and bathrooms of tomorrow and transform how we use water.

DFC has a proud history of bringing innovative products to market, and we’re building on that legacy. If you’re passionate about creating standout products and want to help shape what comes next, we’d love to have you on the journey with us.

Responsibilities:

As Lead Software Systems Engineer, you will play a key role in defining and delivering the software architecture behind Delta Faucet Company’s digital and connected products. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who enjoys building modern cloud-connected systems, guiding cross-functional teams, and shaping products from early concept through launch and lifecycle support.

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-based software systems that power connected, IoT-enabled products.
• Shape technical direction for new connected products, influencing solution design, technology choices, sourcing strategy, and long-term lifecycle planning.
• Define scalable, secure, and maintainable solution patterns across cloud, mobile, and device ecosystems.
• Establish AI usage practices and procedures for skill and agent creation, consistency, cost management, and documentation integration.
• Partner across product management, systems engineering, firmware, mobile, QA, DevOps, and external development teams to deliver production-ready digital experiences.
• Lead architecture for Azure-based connected platforms using modern cloud services, messaging, and event-driven integration patterns.
• Design communication patterns across embedded devices, cloud services, mobile applications, and third-party ecosystem integrations.
• Guide backend and front-end development using modern cloud-native patterns, modern data schemas, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship that strengthens engineering quality, architecture discipline, and delivery practices.
• Help bring smart home water products from concept through launch while building for long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Support connected products in market by guiding enhancements, optimizations, updates, and ongoing technical improvements.
• Contribute to engineering standards, including architecture decision records, design documentation, coding standards, reusable frameworks, and secure development practices.
• Partner with DevOps on deployment models, observability, reliability, incident response, and production support considerations.
• Ensure digital solutions are designed with performance, security, compliance, and long-term product value in mind.
• Drive continuous improvement by incorporating customer feedback, product learnings, and operational insights into future development.
• You may be a great fit for this role if you’re a hands-on technical leader who enjoys solving complex system challenges, collaborating across disciplines, and building connected experiences that improve everyday life.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with increasing responsibility across complex, end-to-end connected products and IoT-enabled solutions.
• Experience developing software for core IoT product capabilities, including mobile and cloud applications, connectivity technologies such as BLE, Wi-Fi, and Thread, cybersecurity practices, over-the-air updates, and IoT data modeling.
• Experience designing scalable, secure architectures across cloud, mobile, and device ecosystems.
• Experience managing cloud application performance, observability, scalability, and cost optimization in modern cloud environments.
• Track record of leading continuous improvement efforts driven by customer feedback and user experience insights.
• Experience partnering closely with embedded software and firmware development teams to deliver integrated product solutions.
• Experience delivering consumer mobile applications, including application architecture, release management, and deployment through Apple App Store and Google Play.
• Experience working with smart home and home automation ecosystems, including platforms such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, or similar environments.
• Strong understanding of Azure IoT Hub and/or AWS IoT services, along with broader cloud-native services and architectures.
• Experience designing IoT data models that support product features, analytics, and long-term business value.

Why Join Us?

At Delta Faucet Company, our people are our greatest assets. We value different perspectives and fostering an inclusive environment. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of our brand, working alongside passionate professionals committed to excellence and innovation. Join us to lead progressive growth and make a significant impact within a leading organization.

Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Culture: Recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal opportunities to work on projects cross-company.
• Social Impact: Four employee-led and self-directed Business Resource Groups; Paid volunteer day annually; Employees share their time, skills and talent with charities and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and around the globe.

Delta Faucet Company (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we strive to employ the most qualified individuals for every position. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all people involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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