BuildOps

BuildOps

Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Staff+ · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$197k-$262kDetected 71 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactNode.jsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLPostgreSQLMySQLAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDGraphQLRESTDesign SystemsProject ManagementSalesforceAccountingValuationTest Automation

About the role

  • We're an AI-native company operating in a fast-paced environment with a high bar for technical excellence, product quality, and customer impact.
  • This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, brings strong systems thinking, and can translate long-term technical strategy into practical execution.
  • Currently, this excludes the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain our full-stack platform, including React.js applications and high-performance backend services built with Node.js, GraphQL, and REST API's
  • Lead technical decisions across the stack, balancing performance, maintainability, scalability, and developer experience
  • Design and optimize APIs and service patterns that support both our product experiences and third-party integrations
  • Improve database design, query performance, and data models to ensure efficient storage and retrieval at scale
  • Drive observability and operational excellence across services through logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, and performance analysis
  • Contribute to and lead engineering-wide initiatives that improve customer experience, system performance, productivity, and knowledge sharing
  • Mentor engineers through technical design reviews, architecture discussions, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions
  • Strong experience building and evolving full-stack systems, with meaningful expertise in both frontend and backend architecture
  • Excellent communication and technical writing skills, with the ability to align engineers and partners across teams
  • As a Staff Software Engineer, your primary focus will be to architect, build, and optimize our platform across the stack, from scalable frontend applications to high-performance backend services.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with Node.js, GraphQL (Apollo or Relay), and RESTful services in production systems
  • Strong experience with React.js and scalable frontend architecture, including performance and state management considerations
  • Proficiency with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design and query optimization
  • Experience with event-driven systems, messaging infrastructure, and real-time data processing
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or similar environments
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, automated testing, and scalable deployment practices

Nice to have

  • Experience with Python for backend services, tooling, or automation workflows
  • Experience leading initiatives that span platformization, service architecture, APIs, or financial/accounting systems
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • You'll work on software that is core to how real-world businesses operate every day
  • You'll join a collaborative, high-caliber team that values technical depth, ownership, and continuous improvement

Skills

  • Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
  • This list is based solely on operational and compliance considerations and is reviewed from time to time as our footprint grows.
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Compensation

  • $197,000 - $262,000 base salary range + annual bonus

Benefits

  • Generous equity grant, become an owner in our company!
  • A comprehensive benefits package
  • Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules

Company info

  • At BuildOps, we're building a groundbreaking software platform purpose-built for today's commercial contractor.
  • We help our customers run service, project management, scheduling, dispatching, inventory, workflows, and financial operations in one unified system.
  • Our platform is mission-critical for the businesses that rely on it every day, so reliability, scalability, and thoughtful execution matter deeply here.
  • Opportunities for growth and career advancement
  • This is your chance to be part of a rocketship.
  • At BuildOps, we're changing the game and doing the best work of our careers.

Equal opportunity

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