2 months ago
Base Salary
$168k - $224k/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.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into technical plans and milestones with Product, Design, and Engineering partners.
- Build user-facing experiences, APIs, and services across client, service, and data boundaries.
- Improve system observability, reliability, performance, scalability, and resilience through metrics, dashboards, alerting, and health checks.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and sources of toil before they become execution bottlenecks.
- Contribute to design reviews, technical discussions, architecture decisions, and engineering standards.
- Mentor less-experienced engineers through code review, technical guidance, and example-setting.
- 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, making technical decisions with incomplete information, and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including design documentation and technical tradeoff discussions.
- Track record of mentoring teammates and improving engineering quality.
- Ownership, urgency, accountability, and comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve throughput, learning speed, and execution quality.
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top university.
- Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, React or similar frontend frameworks, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, integrations, internal platforms, or data pipelines is preferred.
- Experience with SaaS, vertical software, operational workflows, or Claude Code is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary of $168,000-$224,000 plus annual bonus and stock options.
- Comprehensive benefits package, generous equity grant, flexible PTO, and a one-time work-from-home allowance.
- Hybrid schedule with work from home Monday and Friday and in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday.
- Hybrid hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh, with lunch provided on in-office days.
- Company events, team-building activities, growth and career advancement opportunities, and a collaborative work environment.
- Applicants are welcomed across eligible U.S. states where BuildOps is registered and able to support employment, with specific state exclusions listed in the posting.
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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.