Base Salary
$148k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain product features and systems across frontend and backend applications
- Own projects from technical design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and long-term maintenance
- Build user-facing experiences, APIs, services, and integrations across client, service, and data boundaries
- Design for observability and reliability through metrics, dashboards, alerting, and health checks
- Improve product and system performance, scalability, and resilience
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and sources of toil before they become bottlenecks
- Contribute to design reviews, technical discussions, and architecture decisions
- Mentor less-experienced engineers through code review, technical guidance, and example-setting
- Improve engineering standards, knowledge sharing, and team culture
- Use AI tools for development, debugging, documentation, and workflow acceleration
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
- Experience building product features across frontend and backend systems, reliable APIs, services, and user-facing applications
- Strong software design, database, data modeling, debugging, problem-solving, and technical decision-making skills
- Experience owning ambiguous projects, collaborating cross-functionally, and driving stakeholder alignment
- Track record of mentoring teammates and raising engineering quality standards
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top university
- Ability to work Monday and Friday from home and Tuesday through Thursday in the office
- Nice-to-have experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, React, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure-as-code tooling, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, integrations, internal platforms, data pipelines, SaaS, vertical software, or operational workflow systems
- Experience using Claude Code or similar AI coding agents is a plus
Benefits
- Generous equity grant and comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules
- One-time work-from-home allowance
- Hybrid schedule with work from home Monday and Friday and in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday
- Hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh, with lunch provided on in-office days
- Company events and team-building activities
- Opportunities for growth and career advancement
Tech Stack
About BuildOps
BuildOps is the AI-native platform for commercial contractors. Built for the complexity of large-scale commercial work, it replaces disconnected tools and manual workflows with a single system that runs every job from quote to close. At the center of the platform is OpsAI, BuildOps' intelligence layer designed for real work in the trades. OpsAI helps dispatchers send the right tech in seconds, gives field crews the context they need before they step onsite, and helps offices bill clearly and stay on top of cash — all inside the workflows teams already use. Founded in 2018 by a U.S. Army veteran, BuildOps exists to give mission-critical trades technology as strong and reliable as they are — so they can operate with clarity when the work is on the line. Today, more than 1,000 leading companies across North America trust BuildOps to power their businesses, backed by Founders Fund, N47, Meritech Capital, and other top investors.