2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$172k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain the integration and data platform supporting external systems and integrations.
- Lead technical decisions across the stack with attention to performance, maintainability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Design and optimize APIs and service patterns for product experiences and third-party integrations.
- Improve database design, query performance, and data models for efficient storage and retrieval at scale.
- Drive observability and operational excellence through logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, and performance analysis.
- Lead engineering-wide initiatives that improve customer experience, system performance, productivity, and knowledge sharing.
- Evaluate and introduce technologies, patterns, and tooling that improve engineering efficiency and platform quality.
- Define and reinforce testing practices across the stack with QA and engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, architecture discussions, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Influence multiple engineering groups through technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including deep experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript environments and leading large technical initiatives.
- Experience with workflows and data platforms, including data integrity, reconciliation, system quality, resilience, and reliability.
- Production experience with Node.js, GraphQL, RESTful services, PostgreSQL, and Temporal.
- Strong proficiency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design and query optimization.
- Experience with event-driven systems, messaging infrastructure, and real-time data processing.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or similar environments.
- Understanding of automated testing and scalable deployment practices.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising technical standards through influence and execution.
- Strong communication and technical writing skills for aligning engineering and cross-functional partners.
- Experience with large enterprise platforms, including ERP and CRM systems, is preferred.
- Experience leading initiatives involving platformization, service architecture, APIs, or financial and accounting systems is preferred.
- An advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Generous equity grant and comprehensive benefits package.
- Flexible paid time off and hybrid work schedules.
- One-time work-from-home allowance.
- Hybrid hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh, with lunch provided on in-office days.
- Company events, team-building activities, growth opportunities, and career advancement.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.