🚀 Join Sector Alarm as a Tech Lead Automation Tools!

📍 Location: Spain (Fuengirola/Malaga/Madrid), Norway (Oslo) - hybrid role
📢 Department: Tech

Role Overview: Your Day-to-Day

As Tech Lead Automation Tools, you will:

• Guide the technical direction for a team focused on greenfield projects, owning multiple microservices, automation for internal processes and tools to elevate customer experience.

• Shape the broader work culture by mentoring your own team and influencing other teams to adopt proactive, creative, and forward-thinking practices.

• Empower team members to take on creative challenges and drive innovation across the organization

• Engage directly with stakeholders, supported by the product team, to ensure solutions deliver real business value.

• Act as a subject matter expert in your technology and domain, providing guidance and expertise across Sector Alarm.

This is a permanent, full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager.

Since 2019, we have been undergoing a digital transformation—placing technology and data at the heart of our strategy. This role is a crucial part of that journey, where innovation and customer experience drive our success. To learn more about our Tech organization click here.

 Technology:

• Working with hardware components and IoT devices

• Modern DevOps setup with Azure Kubernetes and microservices.

• Azure cloud infrastructure

• C#, .NET Core and backend REST API

• SQL and noSQL databases

 Responsibilities:

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and solution design for your team’s domain.

• Lead development and delivery of APIs and backend services and internal tools (.NET, React).

• Determine project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.

• Delegate tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals.

• Identify risks, build consensus, solve blockers and forming contingency plans as soon as possible. Escalate when needed for complex technical initiatives across platforms, disciplines and teams.

• Strengthen and support the development team, building software that helps to protect the lives and homes of our customers

• Write clean, scalable code using C# .NET Core (60-70% of time)

• Write code and develop according to the assigned tasks and specifications

• Make regular modifications to existing software for error correction, adaptation to new hardware and to improve overall function and performance

• Evaluate new code for reliable architecture, stability, reusability, performance, automation, security and metrics

• Mentor developers and influence training and development plans for technical skills, extending your impact beyond your immediate team.

• Keep up-to-date with industry trends and developments.

• Write unit and integration tests to cover functionality and reduce regressions

• Collaborate with Architecture, Product Owners, and Engineering Managers to agree on solutions and communicate technical debt and its value.

 Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum 2 years as a Tech Lead or equivalent senior technical role.

• Minimum 8 years as a Backend Developer (.NET Core/C#), with hands-on coding experience.

• Strong expertise in React and modern frontend frameworks.

• Excellent knowledge in development processes and DevOps best practices

• Proven experience designing and delivering production APIs and backend systems.

• Solid understanding of microservices, REST/event-driven APIs, and cloud environments (Azure preferred).

• SQL, noSQL and EntityFramework

• Experience in automation and integration testing

• Valid EU work permit

• Willingness to travel as needed.

Nice-to-have

• Azure DevOps and Terraform is a plus

• IoT experience is a plus

• Authentication/authorization flows (Auth0).

Benefits:

Join a truly European team! We operate across 8 countries and are growing fast, with a primary IT hub in Oslo and a secondary hub in sunny Fuengirola, Spain—plus opportunities to travel. You’ll enjoy full ownership of your solutions, the freedom to suggest and implement changes, and time to explore new technologies during work hours. We invest in your growth through trainings, certifications, and classes. Our teams work in agile setups (Kanban, Scrumban, Scrum) and choose what works best for them—no micromanagement, just autonomy and trust. Expect great colleagues, informal social gatherings, and a culture that values initiative and innovation.

 About the recruitment process

We will recruit on a rolling basis, so please do not hesitate to apply with a CV in English. A criminal record check will be requested for the successful candidate.

Sector Alarm is one of Europe’s leading safety providers with more than 700,000 satisfied and safe customers. We have been in operation for over 30 years and deliver superior alarm solutions to homeowners and businesses across Europe. Providing excellent customer service is extremely important to us and we are proud of our consistent 95% customer satisfaction rating.  

Sector Alarm has experienced strong growth over the years and is continuing to expand in both new and existing markets. Today, we are over 3,700 employees operating in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. Our focus on hiring the right people has enabled us to offer customers state-of-the-art security solutions and gain strong market positions in the countries where we operate.  

We offer exciting career opportunities in a company with an ambitious growth strategy and fantastic colleagues. If you share our passion for providing innovative solutions that offer safety and peace of mind, are 100% goal focused and are looking for a fun, fast paced work environment - we would love to hear from you.