Senior Software Engineer
$168,000 per year
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SENIORITY
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SALARY
$168,000 per year
About the role
- Design, build, and maintain high-quality product features and systems across frontend and backend applications
- Own projects through the full lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and long-term maintenance
- Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and well-scoped milestones
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with a strong bias toward simplicity, reliability, and long-term extensibility
- Build user-facing experiences and supporting APIs that work well across client, service, and data boundaries
- Design systems with observability and reliability in mind, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, and health checks that help the team detect and resolve issues quickly
- Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the products and systems your team owns
- Proactively identify technical risks, cross-team dependencies, and sources of toil before they become execution bottlenecks
- Contribute to design reviews, technical discussions, and architecture decisions with clear thinking and sound judgment
- Mentor less-experienced engineers through code review, technical guidance, and example-setting
- Help strengthen engineering culture by sharing knowledge, improving standards, and contributing to a collaborative, high-accountability environment
- Leverage AI tools thoughtfully across development, debugging, documentation, and workflow acceleration while maintaining strong engineering judgment
- What We Look For 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building product features across frontend and backend systemsExperience building reliable APIs, services, and user-facing applications in a modern production environment
- Strong software design instincts, including how to decompose complex business problems into maintainable technical solutions
- Solid understanding of databases, data modeling, and tradeoffs across relational databases
- Experience working with modern web application patterns and building polished customer-facing product experiences
- Experience owning projects with meaningful ambiguity and making good technical decisions with incomplete information
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and drive alignment with stakeholders beyond your immediate team
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify root causes and simplify systems over time
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, especially in design docs, technical tradeoff discussions, and stakeholder updates
- A track record of mentoring teammates and helping raise the quality bar on engineering teams
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability for both shipping and operating software successfully
- Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities evolve and strong judgment matters
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering throughput, learning speed, and quality of executionB.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top university
- Ability to work a hybrid schedule with work from home on Monday and Friday and in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday
- Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or other modern application stacks
- Experience with React or similar frontend frameworks
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, or infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, or other event-driven and high-throughput systemsExperience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Experience building integrations, internal platform capabilities, or data pipelines
- Experience in SaaS, vertical software, or systems that support operational workflows
- Experience using Claude Code or similar AI coding agents in day-to-day development workflows
- Why BuildOpsBuild software for an industry that keeps the real world running
- Solve meaningful technical problems with clear customer and business impact
- Work across product, design, and engineering to shape experiences used every day by commercial contractors
- Join a team that values ownership, speed, quality, and thoughtful collaboration
- Help shape systems, engineering practices, and team culture as BuildOps continues to scale
- Be part of a company investing in AI-native ways of working across the business and engineering organization
- Generous equity grant, become an owner in our company!
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules
- One-time work-from-home allowance
- Hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Raleigh with hybrid work schedules and lunch provided for in-office days
- Company events and team-building activities, both in-person and virtual
- Fast-paced, collaborative, and dynamic work environment
- Opportunities for growth and career advancement
- Chance to work with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions
- The chance to get in on the ground floor and build something truly groundbreaking for ourselves and our amazing customers
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