Senior Software Engineer, Homebase
Backend
CA$132-175k
+ Stock options
Employee scheduling software for small businesses
Open for applications
Employee scheduling software for small businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$132-175k
+ Stock options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make local business teams unstoppable.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about Ruby on Rails, care deeply about backend craftsmanship, love solving ambiguous platform problems, and want to shape the future of mobile experience at Homebase, we want to meet you
- 3-5 years of backend engineering experience, with a strong foundation in building production Rails applications
- Strong Ruby on Rails experience—including idiomatic Ruby, patterns, performance tuning, and familiarity with Rails internals
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, domain modeling, and API design
- Strong experience with SQL, relational data modeling, and schema design for performance and scalability
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems or platform services that support multiple client teams (mobile, web, or cross-functional)
- Comfort with logging, monitoring, alerting, and reliability tooling to diagnose and prevent production issues
- Experience with automated testing (RSpec or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and release management
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, propose solutions, and drive architectural decision-making
- AI fluency—you experiment with AI tooling, integrate automation into your workflow, and continuously improve your development velocity
- 💜 Belonging at Homebase - We're committed to fostering a welcoming space where every Homie can be their full self. Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend-Focused, to join our Mobile Platform team, the group responsible for the shared services, backend architecture, and platform capabilities that power Homebase’s next-generation mobile experiences
- You’ll design and scale the backend systems behind our mobile app—including APIs, orchestration layers, platform services, and the infrastructure that enables the team to deliver fast, reliable, high-impact features
- Your work will accelerate our journey toward an AI-powered mobile assistant manager, supporting workflows like action consolidation, automated triage, and intelligent task routing
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Ruby on Rails that power cross-team mobile workflows, including authentication, messaging, permissions, user actions, and notification routing
- Drive architectural design across platform services—evaluating tradeoffs, improving service boundaries, and enabling a more modular, resilient backend ecosystem
- Consolidate user requests into a centralized action board, enabling our mobile app to surface, prioritize, and automate managerial tasks
- Partner deeply with Mobile Platform engineers to create seamless API contracts, improve release triage processes, and support platform-wide backend reliability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize query patterns, improve caching strategies, and elevate observability across critical services
- Improve developer velocity by refining technical standards, improving documentation, simplifying service integration points, and enabling other teams to build on top of platform services
- Mentor engineers on backend fundamentals, architectural decision-making, and operational excellence
- Apply AI tools to accelerate engineering workflows—including code generation, testing, debugging, documentation, observability insights, and prototyping
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to ship impactful customer experiences with speed and quality
Application process
- Meet the Talent Acquisition team, Ryan H
- Participate in a Live Coding Interview (Ruby + Backend)
- Participate in a Technical Deep Dive
- Meet Cross-functional Partners
- Meet the Hiring Manager, Zeev V
- Background Check + Offer Stage
- Welcome to the team, Homie 🎉
Our take
Homebase provide employees and businesses with time tracking applications, with a range of other HR functionality built in. Homebase automates the process of managing employee scheduling, and also helps companies improve internal communications.
The company contributes to the reduction of paperwork in an office by turning an array of devices into time clocks that track hours and overtime, while also providing payroll support. This makes it easier for companies to remain in sync, running a more efficient operation as a result.
Given that Homebase's customer base of small businesses is not able to pay a lot for its product, scale is the key driver in the company's future success. With over 100,000 customers already, its significant venture capital backing will ensure that the company will be able to grow (notably it's investing in Canadian talent) to provide its services on a profitable scale.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$60m
SERIES D
Nov 2021
$30m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $189m
Company benefits
- Stock Options
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid time off options
- Offsites, customer days & social events
- Work from Anywhere Month
- Group health benefits coverage
- Group RRSP with employer match + TFSA
- Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
- MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John Waldmann
(Founder & CEO)BA Political Science at Stanford. Associate at Boston Consulting Group, then KKR Capstone, before founding Homebase in 2014.
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