2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
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 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.