Engineering Team Lead, Roofr
AI Platform
All-in-one sales platform for roofers
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All-in-one sales platform for roofers
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the trusted foundation for roofing professionals to build their success.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software development experience, with 3+ years in a technical leadership role
- Practical, hands-on experience building production AI systems — you've shipped agents, integrations, or AI-powered features at scale, not just experimented with APIs
- Deep familiarity with LLM APIs and agent frameworks (e.g. Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, LangChain, or similar)
- Experience building evaluation pipelines and quality benchmarks for LLM-powered systems
- Strong background in integration architecture — designing reliable, extensible connectors to third-party services
- Experience building data pipelines that feed AI systems, including familiarity with RAG, embeddings, and vector search patterns
- Backend engineering depth with a track record of building systems that scale — fullstack experience is a plus
- Experience with PHP/Laravel is an asset; what matters most is that you've built scalable backend platforms and can learn the stack
- Proven ability to take ownership — you think beyond your tickets, care about the long-term health of what you build, and hold a high bar for quality
- Comfort being a strong individual contributor while also growing and guiding a team
- Strong communication skills — you can articulate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike
- Experience at an early-stage or high-growth company, and the ability to thrive with the pace and ambiguity that comes with it
- A genuine excitement for what AI makes possible — and the pragmatism to build it well
What the job involves
- Roofr is at an inflection point with AI, and this role is at the center of it
- As Engineering Team Lead of our AI Platform team, you'll own the application foundation that makes AI a native part of how Roofr's product works — establishing the integration architecture, agent patterns, and core abstractions that every product team will build on top of
- This isn't a siloed role — you'll work horizontally across the entire engineering department, making you one of the most cross-cutting and influential contributors in the org
- This is a rare opportunity to define how an entire product organization integrates with AI from the ground up
- The architectural decisions you make here will be the ones every team follows for years
- Build and lead a team of platform engineers, setting technical direction, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers as the team grows
- Define and build the application-layer foundation for AI at Roofr — establishing the core integration patterns, agent architecture, and shared abstractions that product teams across the org will build on
- Own the integration architecture strategy — making the foundational decisions on how Roofr's product connects to AI services and third-party systems, and setting the standard for how the rest of engineering builds with AI
- Design and maintain our third-party integration layer, establishing scalable, reliable patterns for connecting Roofr to external services and APIs
- Build the data pipelines that power our AI features — structured data feeds, embeddings, retrieval infrastructure, and more
- Take strong ownership over platform reliability, performance, and developer experience — the teams building on top of you depend on it
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the AI roadmap and help the broader organization understand what's possible
- Navigate a maturing codebase and help drive architectural consistency across domains with varying levels of maturity
- Establish standards and best practices for how Roofr builds with AI — from SDK design to observability and reliability
- Evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and tooling and make pragmatic, well-reasoned bets on adoption
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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