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 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.