Principal Software Engineer, BuildOps
Financial Systems
CA$198-265k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity Grant
Management software for commercial contractors
Be an early applicant
Management software for commercial contractors
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$198-265k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity Grant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the system that helps commercial contractors shape the future of the trades.
Role
Who you are
- Technical vision others can follow with confidence
- You make complex architectural tradeoffs explicit and legible — clarifying the option space, key forces, and why your recommendation is right across multiple time horizons
- Depth in financial systems
- You bring genuine expertise in accounting-grade system design: immutable event logs (and why they matter), period-close mechanics, reversals vs. deletions, what makes a financial system auditable, and where financial data models fail at scale
- Platformization and system design at scale
- You’ve designed scalable, evolvable platform systems — service architecture, API contracts, data ingestion pipelines, integration architecture — and know where shared primitives create leverage and where over-centralization creates bottlenecks
- AI-native engineering as a force multiplier
- You’ve fully integrated AI into how you build software — running parallel agents, evaluating multiple approaches before committing — and can articulate when AI output is trustworthy and when it requires human review, as a repeatable framework rather than intuition
- Industry awareness and judgment under novelty
- You track industry trends and emerging architectural patterns, distinguish signal from hype, and translate relevant developments into concrete implications for your organization’s technical strategy
- Broad, cross-org impact over a single codebase
- You’d rather shape how every team builds than own one system end-to-end. Your impact shows up in architectural coherence and financial correctness across the platform, not just in the code you personally ship
- Leading through technical credibility, not hierarchy
- You prefer to lead via the rigor of your design documents, the clarity of your thinking, and the consistency of your judgment — more than through headcount, formal authority, or direct ownership of team execution
- Roadmap-first
- You do your best work when you’re stewarding the long-term technical roadmap and cross-org architecture, keeping the system as a whole healthy and evolvable rather than living in constant firefighting mode
What the job involves
- As a Principal Software Engineer, Financial Systems, you will own the cross-cutting architecture of BuildOps’ financial platform and the systems that feed it, serving as our highest-level IC on the financial platform
- Reporting to the CTO, this role is ideal for someone energized by the intersection of accounting-grade system design and large-scale platform architecture, and excited to grow with a fast-moving, industry-defining company
- We’re making several large, interconnected platform investments, and the financial platform sits at the center of all of them — every workflow team produces financial events that must be correct, consistent, and auditable
- We need a principal engineer whose domain gravity is financial systems: someone who can see the entire technical picture, surface where decisions in one domain will break financial data in another, and drive resolution before it becomes an execution blocker
- If you get energy from being the technical north star for an organization, writing design documents that substitute for multiple meetings, and resolving cross-team architectural disputes through the credibility that comes from being consistently right about what matters — especially when the stakes are accounting-grade correctness — this role is for you
- Financial data architecture
- Own the canonical definitions for financial events produced by every workflow team, including cross-team contracts and the resolution of technical ambiguities where domain boundaries intersect with financial data models
- Technical roadmap
- Continuously refine BuildOps’ technology roadmap — translating product strategy into concrete technical investment sequencing across platformization, service architecture, API design, data ingestion, and financial systems
- Org-wide technical quality bar
- Create systems and patterns that serve as reference standards for BuildOps Engineering through design reviews, architecture sessions, code contributions, and written guidance — especially around financial system correctness, integration contract stability, and platform primitive design
- Developing senior engineering talent
- Directly mentor senior engineers and contribute to org-wide knowledge programs — root cause analysis, engineering standards, and onboarding — so the organization’s aggregate technical capability compounds over time
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.
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