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.
Tech Stack
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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.