Senior Software Engineer, BuildOps

• This role is a strong fit for someone who enjoys owning meaningful technical problems end to end, navigating ambiguity with sound judgment, and helping raise the bar for engineering quality across the team
• You should be energized by building in a fast-moving environment, mentoring others, and using AI as a practical force multiplier in your day-to-day work
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building product features across frontend and backend systems
• Experience building reliable APIs, services, and user-facing applications in a modern production environment
• Strong software design instincts, including how to decompose complex business problems into maintainable technical solutions
• Solid understanding of databases, data modeling, and tradeoffs across relational databases
• Experience working with modern web application patterns and building polished customer-facing product experiences
• Experience owning projects with meaningful ambiguity and making good technical decisions with incomplete information
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and drive alignment with stakeholders beyond your immediate team
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify root causes and simplify systems over time
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, especially in design docs, technical tradeoff discussions, and stakeholder updates
• A track record of mentoring teammates and helping raise the quality bar on engineering teams
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability for both shipping and operating software successfully
• Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities evolve and strong judgment matters
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering throughput, learning speed, and quality of execution
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top university
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule with work from home on Monday and Friday and in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday

Desirable

• At BuildOps, we’re building software purpose-built for commercial contractors. From service to projects, we help our customers run the workflows that keep buildings, businesses, and critical infrastructure operating
• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the product experiences and systems behind that mission
• In this role, you’ll work across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations that power high-impact workflows for our customers
• You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design to solve complex problems, improve reliability and usability, and deliver software that creates real customer and business impact
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality product features and systems across frontend and backend applications
• Own projects through the full lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and long-term maintenance
• Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and well-scoped milestones
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with a strong bias toward simplicity, reliability, and long-term extensibility
• Build user-facing experiences and supporting APIs that work well across client, service, and data boundaries
• Design systems with observability and reliability in mind, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, and health checks that help the team detect and resolve issues quickly
• Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the products and systems your team owns
• Proactively identify technical risks, cross-team dependencies, and sources of toil before they become execution bottlenecks
• Contribute to design reviews, technical discussions, and architecture decisions with clear thinking and sound judgment
• Mentor less-experienced engineers through code review, technical guidance, and example-setting
• Help strengthen engineering culture by sharing knowledge, improving standards, and contributing to a collaborative, high-accountability environment
• Leverage AI tools thoughtfully across development, debugging, documentation, and workflow acceleration while maintaining strong engineering judgment