Software Engineer I

Overview

Our Commitment:

At Symmons, we are dedicated to delivering excellence in every aspect of our business. Our success is driven by our commitment to our core values: being customer-focused, embracing a can-do attitude, demonstrating resilience, and always striving to win as a team. We believe in fostering a positive and collaborative work environment where every team member can thrive and contribute to our shared goals.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Software Engineer I to join our team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in helping us achieve our mission by putting our core values into action every day. If you are passionate about providing exceptional service, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are ready to make a significant impact, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer, you will help scale our technology to thousands of new buildings across North America. A pivotal role in advancing innovation and ensuring the quality, reliability, and security of our IoT water system monitoring product.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features across our platform, including our mobile app (React Native/Expo), while also contributing to our Vue web portal and Spring Boot backend as the work requires.
• Write and maintain automated tests (unit and integration) for the code you ship, and help keep our CI/CD pipelines healthy and reliable.
• Take ownership of your work end-to-end - your responsibility doesn’t end at merge, and you stay responsive when something breaks in production.
• Participate in monitoring system health and diagnosing issues in production environments - help triage and resolve bugs reported by users or monitoring tools.
• Assist in system DevOps including setup, configuration, and management of cloud-based infrastructure (AWS or similar) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Work closely with Evolution Sales, Customer Success and Engineering teams to plan, prioritize, and deliver new features and improvements.
• Contribute to technical documentation, including user guides, deployment guides, and troubleshooting steps.
• Support security testing and performance optimization efforts, helping to ensure our solutions are robust and scalable.
• Bring a growth mindset—proactively suggest and help implement improvements to our tools, processes, and workflows, and embrace learning new technologies across mobile, web, backend, and IoT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in a software engineering role
• Ability to travel up to 10% as required with possible overnight stays.
• Experience with React Native (or strong React fundamentals and eagerness to pick up mobile development), TypeScript, and at least one modern backend language—Java/Spring Boot preferred. Familiarity with Vue is a plus.
• Experience with REST APIs and SQL, exposure to NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Familiarity with test automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Selenium).
• Understanding of IoT technologies, protocols, and wireless communication standards is a plus.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.), mobile development, Docker, or containerization is desirable but not required.
• Experience with version control (Git) and familiarity with issue-tracking tools (e.g., Jira).
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and incomplete specifications, and able to take a problem end-to-end with limited handholding.
• Actively uses AI tools in their workflow and is curious about how to push them further to accelerate output.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities, with a willingness to cross between mobile, web, and backend depending on what the team needs.
• Knowledge of security testing and best practices is desirable.

Company Overview:

In 1939, Paul Symmons advanced the plumbing industry by inventing the first anti-scald, pressure-balancing valve. 87 years later his legacy lives on through the Temptrol® valve, which is still made right here in the USA.

While the vision of Paul Symmons is never out of sight, we’re constantly pressing forward, challenging ourselves and the industry to be better… to do better. As we design and redesign the minute details, we’re also conscious of the bigger things, like water conservation, and energy reduction, and global impact.

That’s what we do here at Symmons – we make things right.

Join Symmons in our mission to revolutionize building operations across North America with the Symmons Evolution platform. Be part of a team that's not just selling a product but driving technological innovation in the built world.

Headquartered in Braintree, MA, Symmons is a privately held company with regional sales offices and local representatives located throughout the United States and Canada. For more information, please visit 

Symmons offers a competitive compensation package including excellent benefits and a 401k plan with 100% match up to the first 6% of eligible wages with immediate vesting. The pay range reflects our good faith estimate at the time of posting and does not guarantee a specific wage. Actual pay will depend on skills, experience, and other job-related factors.

If you are ready to bring your passion, skills, and can-do attitude to Symmons, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Please submit your application/resume at: