Director of Engineering, BuildOps
FinancialOS
$196-262k
+ Annual bonus + Equity grant
In office Tues, Weds, Thurs
3 days a week in office ( Santa Monica, CA)
Management software for commercial contractors
Open for applications
Management software for commercial contractors
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$196-262k
+ Annual bonus + Equity grant
In office Tues, Weds, Thurs
3 days a week in office ( Santa Monica, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the system that helps commercial contractors shape the future of the trades.
Role
Who you are
- We love driven, self-motivated folks experienced in tech start-ups and thrive in fast-paced environments
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading managers and teams in a high-growth SaaS or technology company
- Proven track record defining architecture for complex, scalable systems including distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure
- Demonstrated success building and scaling platform teams where multiple product teams depend on shared services and contracts
- Strong understanding of accounting-grade transaction systems including immutable history, auditability, validation, period controls, and safe correction and reversal patterns
- Experience delivering or partnering closely on ERP and accounting integrations, with an obsession for correctness, predictability, and reduced reconciliation
- Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- If you’re ready to tackle big challenges, work with a passionate team, and build something extraordinary, BuildOps is the place for you
What the job involves
- This candidate will join a well-funded, fast-growing technology startup with the unique opportunity to help build out a critical function for the company
- As our Director of Engineering, FinancialOS, you will own the engineering strategy and execution for FinancialOS—the unified financial layer across the BuildOps platform designed to convert operational activity into auditable, accounting-grade transactions through ledgerization, platformization, and standardization
- Develop and implement an engineering strategy that delivers FinancialOS as a platform capability used across BuildOps
- Build, lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of managers and senior ICs to execute on the FinancialOS vision
- Establish engineering standards, operating rhythms, and best practices appropriate for high-stakes financial correctness and platform adoption
- Partner with Product Management and other engineering leaders to align sequencing, tradeoffs, and adoption across the broader BuildOps ecosystem
- Drive the architectural vision for FinancialOS, including a financial subledger that ensures every dollar-impacting event becomes a validated, period-aware, reversible, auditable transaction before syncing to an ERP
- Lead platformization of money behavior across modules by centralizing financial services like tax, rounding and precision, currency treatment, and validation to eliminate inconsistent outcomes
- Drive standardization across pricing and cost definitions, configuration, and coding and segment structures so financial outputs remain consistent and ERP-ready across all workflows
- Define, track, and report key engineering and platform metrics including reliability, correctness, delivery velocity, and incident rates
- Establish a quality bar appropriate for financial systems including traceability, deterministic behavior, safe correction flows, and robust validation
- Continuously improve how the organization ships and operates as a platform engineering function
- Work closely with QA, Product, Customer Success, and Integrations teams to ensure FinancialOS is adopted cleanly and delivers real customer outcomes
- Foster a culture of innovation, clarity, and accountability while operating across multiple teams and priorities
- Ensure the platform reduces reconciliation burden by producing clean, predictable ERP-ready financial outputs that align operations and accounting
- Build with the realities of construction financials in mind, including out-of-order costs, corrections, accruals, and strict ERP requirements
- At BuildOps, we’re changing the game and doing the best work of our careers. You’ll be a key player in a company that’s truly making a difference for the backbone of our economy
Our take
BuildOps offers a tailored management software platform catering to the real estate sector, allowing its clientele to enhance cash flow and profit margins. Through its all-in-one invoicing and billing workflow, coupled with a robust financial reporting platform, BuildOps equips customers with the tools needed for streamlined operations.
The company's strategic focus on sub-contractors within the construction and real estate industry sets it apart in a market where many management platforms struggle to integrate diverse functionalities. Unlike its competitors, BuildOps has mastered the all-in-one approach, mitigating miscommunication and confusion often stemming from disparate silos of information.
In a landscape worth billions, BuildOps has swiftly carved out a niche, positioning itself for significant growth in the years to come. Recently; the company secured new funding and cemented its status as a unicorn. This is a sure sign of investors' confidence in the company's vision and its potential to revolutionize management software for the modern commercial contractor.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2025
$127m
SERIES C
May 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $225.8m
Company benefits
- Financial: Competitive base salary. Generous equity options. Performance bonuses for 95%+ employees. Bi- annual performance & compensation reviews. RRSP & 401k employee contribution plan.
- Health & Family: Health/dental/vision insurance as of Day 1. Paid parental leave. Life insurance + disability insurance. Employee Family Assistance Program (EAP).
- Other Perks: Flexible PTO. Home-office allowance. Hybrid flexibility. Access to awesome office spaces (in L A , Toronto, and Raleigh). Team retreats & off- sites.
Company HQ
Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Alok Chanani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Board Member at Wharton Angel Network, CEO at USA Commercial and Summer Associate at the Bernstein Companies.
Steve Chew
(CSO)Currently Community Lead at StartX. Previously Co-Founder and CEO at Swerv and Vice President of Marketing at Fundly.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 28 more jobs at BuildOps