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, and integrations across client, service, and data boundaries.
- Improve product performance, scalability, resilience, observability, and reliability.
- Identify technical risks, cross-team dependencies, and sources of toil before they affect execution.
- Contribute to design reviews, technical discussions, and architecture decisions.
- Mentor less-experienced engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and example-setting.
- Use AI tools for development, debugging, documentation, and workflow acceleration while applying sound engineering judgment.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to translate ambiguous problems into technical plans and milestones.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Experience building product features across frontend and backend systems, including reliable APIs, services, and user-facing applications.
- Strong software design, database, data modeling, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience owning ambiguous projects, making technical decisions, collaborating cross-functionally, and driving stakeholder alignment.
- Track record of mentoring teammates and raising engineering quality standards.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, ownership, urgency, and accountability.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with evolving priorities.
- 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.
- Preferred experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, React, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure-as-code tooling, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, integrations, internal platform capabilities, data pipelines, SaaS, vertical software, or operational workflow systems.
- Preferred experience using Claude Code or similar AI coding agents.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with work from home on 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.
- Generous equity grant, comprehensive benefits package, flexible PTO, and hybrid work schedules.
- One-time work-from-home allowance.
- Company events and team-building activities, both in-person and virtual.
- Opportunities for growth and career advancement.
- Applicants are welcomed from eligible U.S. states where BuildOps is registered and able to support employment.
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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.