Senior Backend Engineer

BuildOps is the leading vertical AI platform for commercial specialty contractors. We combine field service project management scheduling and finance in a single modern cloud platform built specifically for the trades. Our mission is to power the operations behind the worlds most important buildings and infrastructure by giving contractors software that actually works the way they do.

We are an AI-native company and are investing deeply in intelligent automation across our product and our internal engineering tooling. Youll be joining a team that moves quickly holds a very high bar for quality and cares deeply about the impact our work has on customers who keep the world running.

The Role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer your primary focus will be building and enhancing the backend platform that powers BuildOps. Youll work on a crossfunctional squad to design and implement scalable reliable services and APIs that support our web mobile and integration experiences.

Youll own projects end to endfrom requirements and design through implementation testing deployment and ongoing operationwhile mentoring other engineers and helping to shape the technical direction of the team. You care deeply about quality performance and reliability and you are excited to use AI tools to move faster and ship

What Youll Do:

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs (GraphQL and REST) using and TypeScript
• Design and evolve real-time event-driven systems that power core BuildOps workflows
• Drive the full software development lifecycle: requirements design docs implementation testing deployment and maintenance
• Write clean well-tested well-documented code with appropriate abstractions and automated tests
• Improve observability and reliability with the right metrics logging tracing and alerting
• Profile and optimize services for latency throughput and cost efficiency.
• Use and help standardize AI-powered tools for code generation refactoring debugging test creation and analysis
• Collaborate closely with product design and other partners to translate business needs into technical solutions and tradeoffs
• Participate in and often lead technical design reviews code reviews and architecture discussions
• Mentor other engineers share best practices and help raise the overall bar for the team

What We Look For:

MustHave Skills

• 5 years of professional experience in backend or fullstack development including 12 years in a senior or lead capacity on large-scale applications
• Strong experience building distributed web applications and backend services (microservices or serviceoriented architectures)
• Deep hands-on experience with (preferably with TypeScript) in production environments
• Experience designing building and maintaining GraphQL (Apollo) and/or REST APIs
• Solid database design and modeling experience (SQL and/or NoSQL) and understanding of tradeoffs between different storage technologies
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures algorithms concurrency and objectoriented or typed design
• Proven experience using AI tools to enhance your development workflow (e.g. code generation refactoring debugging test creation or analysis) plus curiosity about emerging AI technologies
• Ability to take ownership of projects end to end and operate proactively in an ambiguous fastpaced environment
• Excellentcommunication and collaboration skills; you listen well seek context and explain technical decisions clearly

Nice To Have Skills

• BS or MS in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related technical field
• Experience with:
• Event-driven architectures and messaging systems
• Cloud platforms (e.g. GCP AWS or similar)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)
• Additional backend languages or ecosystems (e.g. Python) for services automation or data pipelines
• Experience with observability tooling (metrics logging tracing) and performance profiling in distributed systems
• Exposure tomachine learning or data-driven systems

Why BuildOps:

• Mission-driven impact: Your work directly helps the contractors who build and maintain the commercial buildings we all rely on
• AI-native culture: We expect and support engineers to be power users of AI and automation continually finding smarter faster ways to build
• Highcaliber teammates: Work with experienced engineering product and design leaders who hold a high bar and care deeply about craft
• Ownership & growth: Real autonomy clear expectations and support to grow your scope and impact over time
• Collaborative environment: We operate with an all for one mindsetcrossfunctional teams work together to solve problems and win as a company

Compensation:

• $168000 - $210000 base salary range annual bonus

• Generous equity grant become an owner in our company!
• A comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules
• One-time work-from-home allowance
• Hubs in Los Angeles San Francisco Toronto and Raleigh with hybrid work schedules and lunch provided for in-office days
• Company events and team-building activities both in-person and virtual
• Fast-paced collaborative and dynamic work environment
• Opportunities for growth and career advancement
• Chance to work with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions
• The chance to get in on the ground floor and build something truly groundbreaking for ourselves and our amazing customers

We welcome applicants from across the U.S. where we are registered to do business and able to support employment. Currently this excludes the following states: Alaska Hawaii Kentucky Mississippi Nebraska New Mexico North Dakota Rhode Island South Dakota West Virginia and Wyoming. This list is based solely on operational and compliance considerations and is reviewed from time to time as our footprint grows.

About BuildOps

Join BuildOps the largest commercial trade platform in the country as we transform the multi-billion dollar commercial contracting industry!

Were not just talking incremental improvementswere talking a full-scale revolution empowering the hardworking heroes who build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps our world running. See why contractors choose Buildopshere.

This is your chance to be part of a rocketship. Were fresh off a $1 billion valuation and a $127M Series C funding round (part of over $275M raised to date) led by industry-leading investors like Meritech Capital BOND and SE Ventures backed by Schneider Electric (ReutersTechCrunchLA Business Journal) . Our latest investors join our team of industry heavyweights like Next47 former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo former Salesforce President Gavin Patterson and Boost Mobile CEO Stephen Stokols. Their investment is fueling our aggressive growth and our commitment to equipping contractors with AI-driven tools to conquer chaos boost efficiency skyrocket profitability and ultimately deliver exceptional service.

At BuildOps were changing the game and doing the best work of our careers. Youll be a key player in a company thats truly making a difference for the backbone of our economy. If youre ready to tackle big challenges work with a passionate team and build something extraordinary BuildOps is the place for you.

BuildOps is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy gender identity and sexual orientation) national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal state or local law.

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