Alarm.com - http://www.alarm.com - Washington DC, Denver CO, Minneapolis MN, Brooklyn NY
A rapidly expanding, entrepreneurial technology company, Alarm.com, is seeking an ambitious and
talented senior level software engineer to take a lead technical role on the Software Development team. The Principal Software Engineer will be a key technical thought leader and will report to the Vice President of Software Engineering.
The Principal Software Engineer’s primary job responsibilities include:
• Alarm.com provides web-enabled, wireless security, safety and activity monitoring technology to
residential and commercial customers throughout the United States and Canada. Our patented
technology is already used by millions of residential and small commercial customers.
• Alarm.com’s Engineering team is perfect for candidates who want to gain exposure to a wide variety
of technologies including GSM wireless RF networks, intelligent video analysis, device firmware, home
automation, web app development, e-commerce, iOS/Android/WP development.
• Very few small companies innovate and develop across such a broad range of technologies as
Alarm.com. This position is ideal for the candidate who seeks a small, friendly company culture where
one can work closely with a team of smart and highly productive people across a very interesting
spectrum of wireless, software, and hardware/device technologies.
We're also hiring for these engineering positions:
Can you explain this a bit further? I'm not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I've never understood the outrage at his tax returns. It was my understanding that the low tax rate was due to 1) donations and 2) the fact that most of his income comes from capital gains. Do you think people considering running for president should go out of their way to pay more taxes?
He kept several years of tax returns hidden, had shady offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, and while I don't expect him to pay more taxes than legally required, it would be nice if he acknowledged or addressed as a policy issue that he made orders of magnitudes more money than a middle class person yet paid a quarter of their effective tax rate. Capital gains taxes are bad, but so are income taxes, and I don't think it's coincidence we keep the ones that is largely shouldered by the middle class high.
There was also the issue of the balance in his retirement savings account. If I recall correctly, it was far beyond what the maximum amount expected from an "ordinary" person, contributing the maximum amounts allowable from even a 7-figure CEO salary for 50 continuous years--ten times as much, or more, in one third the time. The whole business simultaneously screamed "tax avoidance loophole" and "elite privilege".
Let's not forget his IRA stuffing where he put deliberately undervalued shares into his IRA to take advantage of no taxes on any capital gains inside an IRA (until the funds are removed).
And if anyone challenges the notion of whether or not Mitt took part in IRA stuffing, just look at the annual returns of his IRA versus the annual returns of any investment product offered by Bain.
Most people pay a lot more taxes because they don't have entire tax firms to leverage against their yearly tax return. Most people make a lot less money than politicians. Politicians often say that we need to pay for our public services in taxes. Politicians are often to take advantage of the social services of a society without contributing back with taxes, and people see that as taking advantage of the good will of people. Then when such people run for public office, people are disinterested to vote for someone who demonstrates no care for the social system that allowed them to employ workers and build a business.
This isn't a question of what people should do to garner public support. That's a red herring. Asking such a question is pointless. It's pretty much saying "well if I fed a poor person while I was ripping off hard working everyday people, would you vote for me then?"
Well.. no most people wouldn't, but it does tell us a lot about you when you ask that question.
The simplest one is that Google doesn't want to alienate all the other handset manufacturers. Just look at the trouble Microsoft has recently caused amongst it's partners by competing directly with them.
Oh man. I seriously love you. I've been trying to find a fix for this for about two years now.
My app sometimes launches from the background after the user enters or leaves a region. It looks for a session token (not a password) in the Keychain and would return nil and log the user out. I'm not sure how I never came across kSecAttrAccessibleAlwaysThisDeviceOnly in all my hours trying to find a solution.
By the way, this isn't specific to iOS 7. I've had the same issue since iOS 5.
Apparently Montague was actually seeking funding to create a kite-boat (he had previously help establish kite-boarding), but it was Larry and Sergey's idea to go down the wind energy route.
Here's a high level look at our technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU5l-lkvmqw
We’re looking for iOS and Android developers with 3+ years experience.
We're also hiring for tons of non-engineering positions that you can check out here: http://www.alarm.com/about/careers.aspx
Please contact me, Brandon O'Rourke, if you're interested: borourke@alarm.com