Senior Backend Engineer

<p>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.</p> <p>We are an <strong>AI-native company</strong> 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.<br><br><strong>The Role:</strong></p> <p>As a <strong>Senior Backend Engineer</strong>, 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.</p> <p>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</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build and maintain <strong>backend services and APIs</strong> (GraphQL and REST) using <strong>Node.js and TypeScript</strong></li> <li>Design and evolve <strong>real-time, event-driven systems</strong> that power core BuildOps workflows</li> <li>Drive the <strong>full software development lifecycle</strong>: requirements, design docs, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance</li> <li>Write <strong>clean, well-tested, well-documented code</strong> with appropriate abstractions and automated tests</li> <li>Improve <strong>observability and reliability</strong> with the right metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting</li> <li>Profile and optimize services for <strong>latency, throughput, and cost efficiency</strong>.</li> <li>Use and help standardize <strong>AI-powered tools</strong> for code generation, refactoring, debugging, test creation, and analysis</li> <li>Collaborate closely with product, design, and other partners to translate business needs into technical solutions and tradeoffs</li> <li>Participate in and often lead <strong>technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions</strong></li> <li>Mentor other engineers, share best pra