Senior Backend Engineer, Roofr
AI Platform
All-in-one sales platform for roofers
Open for applications
All-in-one sales platform for roofers
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the trusted foundation for roofing professionals to build their success.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8 years of backend software development experience
- Practical, production experience building AI-powered systems — you've shipped agents, integrations, or LLM-powered features at scale
- Hands-on familiarity with LLM APIs and agent frameworks (e.g. Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, LangChain, or similar)
- Experience building evaluation pipelines for LLM-powered systems — you understand why 'it seems to work' isn't good enough and have built the tooling to prove it
- Strong integration engineering background — you know how to design reliable connectors to external services that hold up in production
- Experience building data pipelines for AI use cases, including familiarity with RAG, embeddings, and vector search
- A track record of building backend systems that scale — you care about architecture, not just shipping
- Experience with PHP/Laravel is an asset; what matters most is deep backend engineering fundamentals and the ability to ramp on a stack
- Strong sense of ownership — you don't wait to be told when something needs fixing or improving
- Clear communicator who can collaborate across teams and explain technical decisions without jargon
- Experience at an early-stage or high-growth company, and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment
- Genuine curiosity about AI and what it can unlock — and the engineering discipline to build it the right way
What the job involves
- Senior Backend Engineers to help build iRoofr is building the application foundation that will define how AI is integrated across our entire product — and we're looking for t. You'll be a core contributor on the team establishing the integration architecture and agent patterns that product teams across Roofr will build on top of. This is early, foundational work — you're setting the standard, not following it — and the code you write will have outsized reach and impact across the entire company
- Build the application-layer foundations for AI integration at Roofr — the integration patterns, agent scaffolding, and shared architecture that product teams depend on when shipping AI-powered features
- Design and implement reliable, scalable integrations with third-party services and APIs
- Build data pipelines that feed Roofr's AI systems — including structured data feeds, embeddings, and retrieval infrastructure
- Design and maintain rigorous evaluation frameworks for AI systems — including accuracy benchmarks, regression suites, and automated quality checks that give the team confidence to iterate quickly
- Collaborate horizontally across engineering teams to understand needs, establish shared patterns, and ensure the platform is built for real use cases
- Take strong ownership of what you build — reliability, performance, and developer experience are part of the job, not an afterthought
- Contribute to standards and best practices for how Roofr builds with AI
- Stay close to the evolving AI landscape and bring pragmatic, well-reasoned ideas to the team
Application process
- Feel free to use AI to prep, research, or get pumped up for your interview (we see you, ChatGPT power users 👀). But when it’s time to chat, we’d love to meet you, not your AI alter ego. Bring your real, unfiltered self, we promise we will too
Our take
Roofing is one of those manual industries that’s been around forever, and can sometimes feel like it still exists in a completely pre-digital age. But Roofr’s on a mission to change that, with its software platform designed to modernize the industry.
One of its main selling points is that it offers roofers the ability to give instant estimates. It works with companies like Nearmap, whose low-altitude planes take high-resolution photos for mapping. This provides roofing companies with high-quality imagery of the roof to be able to give an estimate without a site visit - easier for the company and customer.
A few other start-ups are aiming to reinvent the roofing industry, but roofing is a $40 billion-a-year industry, so there's ample opportunity for growth. Roofr has raised substantial funding and already earned recognition in this sector, enabling it to strengthen its platform and continue to broaden its reach.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
74% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2023
$23.5m
SERIES A
Sep 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.9m
Company benefits
- 1st week of employment is mandatory PTO! Start your journey with Roofr by decompressing and recharging - we will see you in week 2!
- 1 Friday off per month (we call those our laundry days!)
- Company wide paid shutdown for the week between Christmas and New Years
- Flexible time off
- Medical, dental and vision insurance premiums for employees and their dependents
- Generous Parental Leave policy
- We host 2 retreats per year and great team building activities
- Ample learning and development opportunities to continue growing your career
- Home office setup stipend
- Remote first culture
- Weekly Friday paydays!
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Richy Nelson
(CEO)Began their career as a Roofer, spending over 13 years at Guaranteed Roofing before becoming a Project Manager at Trudel and Sons Roofing.
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