Senior Backend Engineer

BuildOps is the leading vertical AI platform for commercial specialty contractors. We combine field service project management scheduling and finance in a single modern cloud platform built specifically for the trades. Our mission is to power the operations behind the world’s most important buildings and infrastructure by giving contractors software that actually works the way they do.

We are an AI-native company and are investing deeply in intelligent automation across our product and our internal engineering tooling. You’ll be joining a team that moves quickly holds a very high bar for quality and cares deeply about the impact our work has on customers who keep the world running.
The Role:

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

What You'll Do:

• 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

What We Look For:

Must‑Have Skills

• 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

Nice To Have Skills

• 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

Why BuildOps:

• Mission-driven impact: Your work directly helps the contractors who build and maintain the commercial buildings we all rely on
• AI-native culture: We expect and support engineers to be power users of AI and automation continually finding smarter faster ways to build
• High‑caliber teammates: Work with experienced engineering product and design leaders who hold a high bar and care deeply about craft
• Ownership & growth: Real autonomy clear expectations and support to grow your scope and impact over time
• Collaborative environment: We operate with an “all for one” mindset—cross‑functional teams work together to solve problems and win as a company

Compensation:

• $168000 - $210000 base salary range + annual bonus

What We Do

BuildOps is the only all-in-one management software built specifically for the modern commercial contractor combining service and project management and everything in between. Focused on serving the commercial Mechanical Electrical Plumbing (MEP) market the BuildOps platform enables contractors to prove out current market trends optimize their business for higher profits and stay ahead of the competition.

Why Work With Us

The idea for BuildOps was born out of the very real need felt by our founders from their own experience both in technology and in the field. We’re a widespread but tight-knit team of go-getters. We are passionate but humble. Unique but fiercely collaborative. And at the end of the day we truly love what we do.

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