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Senior Software Engineer

BuildOps

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • design docs
  • technical tradeoff
  • stakeholder updates

Preferred

  • frontend
  • integrations / internal platform capabilities / data pipelines
  • cloud
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • React
  • cloud infrastructure / Kubernetes / Docker / infrastructure-as-code tooling
  • Kafka
  • Elasticsearch

BuildOps, a company dedicated to building software for commercial contractors. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations to create high-impact workflows for our customers. You will 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.

Responsibilities

  • This role is ideal 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.
  • 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.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities evolve and strong judgment matters
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building product features across frontend and backend systems
  • Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering throughput, learning speed, and quality of execution
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and drive alignment with stakeholders beyond your immediate team
  • Solid understanding of databases, data modeling, and tradeoffs across relational databases

Requirements

  • Experience building reliable APIs, services, and user-facing applications in a modern production environment
  • Experience owning projects with meaningful ambiguity and making good technical decisions with incomplete information
  • Ability to work a hybrid schedule with work from home on Monday and Friday and in-office collaboration Tuesday through Thursday
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify root causes and simplify systems over time
  • A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability for both shipping and operating software successfully
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, especially in design docs, technical tradeoff discussions, and stakeholder updates
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
  • A track record of mentoring teammates and helping raise the quality bar on engineering teams
  • Strong software design instincts, including how to decompose complex business problems into maintainable technical solutions
  • Experience working with modern web application patterns and building polished customer-facing product experiences
  • B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top university

Preferred

  • Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or other modern application stacks

Experience with React or similar frontend frameworks

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, or infrastructure-as-code tooling
  • Experience building integrations, internal platform capabilities, or data pipelines
  • Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, or other event-driven and high-throughput systems

Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms

  • Experience in SaaS, vertical software, or systems that support operational workflows
  • Experience using Claude Code or similar AI coding agents in day-to-day development workflows

Pay

USD 168,000 - 224,000