Senior Backend Engineer

BuildOps is a leading vertical AI platform for commercial specialty contractors, and is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team. The engineer will be responsible for building and enhancing the backend platform that powers BuildOps, working on a cross-functional squad to design and implement scalable, reliable services and APIs. The engineer will also be responsible for mentoring other engineers and helping to shape the technical direction of the team.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Generous equity grant
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible PTO and hybrid work schedules
• One-time work-from-home allowance
• Company events and team-building activities, both in-person and virtual