Senior Backend Engineer, BuildOps
$168-210k
+ Annual bonus
Management software for commercial contractors
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Management software for commercial contractors
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$168-210k
+ Annual bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the system that helps commercial contractors shape the future of the trades.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend or full‑stack development, including 1–2+ years in a senior or lead capacity on large-scale applications
- Strong experience building distributed web applications and backend services (microservices or service‑oriented architectures)
- Deep hands-on experience with Node.js (preferably with TypeScript) in production environments
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining GraphQL (Apollo) and/or REST APIs
- Solid database design and modeling experience (SQL and/or NoSQL) and understanding of tradeoffs between different storage technologies
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and object‑oriented or typed design
- Proven experience using AI tools to enhance your development workflow (e.g., code generation, refactoring, debugging, test creation, or analysis), plus curiosity about emerging AI technologies
- Ability to take ownership of projects end to end and operate proactively in an ambiguous, fast‑paced environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you listen well, seek context, and explain technical decisions clearly
Desirable
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience with:
- Event-driven architectures and messaging systems
- Cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or similar)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Additional backend languages or ecosystems (e.g., Python) for services, automation, or data pipelines
- Experience with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and performance profiling in distributed systems
- Exposure to machine learning or data-driven systems
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, your primary focus will be building and enhancing the backend platform that powers BuildOps. You’ll work on a cross‑functional squad to design and implement scalable, reliable services and APIs that support our web, mobile, and integration experiences
- You’ll own projects end to end—from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation—while mentoring other engineers and helping to shape the technical direction of the team. You care deeply about quality, performance, and reliability, and you are excited to use AI tools to move faster and ship
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs (GraphQL and REST) using Node.js and TypeScript
- Design and evolve real-time, event-driven systems that power core BuildOps workflows
- Drive the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design docs, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code with appropriate abstractions and automated tests
- Improve observability and reliability with the right metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Profile and optimize services for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency
- Use and help standardize AI-powered tools for code generation, refactoring, debugging, test creation, and analysis
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and other partners to translate business needs into technical solutions and tradeoffs
- Participate in and often lead technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
- Mentor other engineers, share best practices, and help raise the overall bar for the team
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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