BuildOps

Senior Software Engineer

BuildOps
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$168k - $224k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain high-quality product features and systems across frontend and backend applications.
  • Own projects from technical design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and long-term maintenance.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into technical plans and milestones with Product, Design, and Engineering partners.
  • Build reliable 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 while identifying technical risks and sources of toil.
  • Contribute to design reviews, technical discussions, and architecture decisions.
  • Mentor less-experienced engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and example-setting.
  • Improve engineering standards, culture, knowledge sharing, and collaborative execution.
  • Use AI tools for development, debugging, documentation, and workflow acceleration while applying sound engineering judgment.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building product features across frontend and backend systems.
  • Experience building reliable APIs, services, and user-facing applications in a modern production environment.
  • Strong software design, database, data modeling, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience owning ambiguous projects and making technical decisions with incomplete information.
  • Demonstrated cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder alignment, clear communication, and mentoring experience.
  • Strong ownership, urgency, accountability, and comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • 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.
  • 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, operational workflows, Claude Code, or similar AI coding agents.

Benefits

  • $168,000–$224,000 base salary range plus annual bonus and stock options.
  • Generous equity grant and comprehensive benefits package.
  • Flexible PTO, hybrid work schedules, and a 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 for in-office days.
  • Company events, team-building activities, growth opportunities, and career advancement.
BuildOps

About BuildOps

501-1,000 employees

BuildOps provides an all-in-one SaaS platform for commercial specialty contractors to manage service and project workflows—quoting, scheduling/dispatch, field mobile, inventory, invoicing, and financial reporting—in a single system. The subscription-based product integrates with accounting/ERP tools and includes an AI layer (OpsAI) for dispatch and office tasks. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, it serves commercial trades across North America.

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