Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Homebot, a top Denver workplace, and revolutionize homeownership wealth building! As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll enhance core systems and integrations. This full-time position offers a hybrid or full-time remote model (with quarterly Denver visits). The annual salary ranges from $145,000 to $175,000, plus a 10% performance bonus. We offer competitive benefits, including comprehensive health insurance, 401k matching, flexible vacation, paid parental leave, and a supportive work environment. Apply now to join our innovative team!

Requirements

• 5+ years of production engineering experience
• Familiarity with concepts from Clean Code, SOLID principles, or similar
• 4-5+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
• 4+ years building scalable APIs
• Strong Postgres or other database experience
• Experience with Sidekiq, redis, memcache, Elasticsearch or similar
• Experience in scaling applications with a commitment to ensuring maintainability
• Ability to respond to situations in a timely manner, and meet personal commitments
• Comfortable RSpec or similar testing frameworks and understand solid testing principles

Responsibilities

• Understand the responsibilities of and interactions between our core services
• Pair with other engineers on your team to ship new features & refinements
• Connect with folks from all across the Homebot organization
• Ship pre-defined features / refinements from our roadmap
• Join our on-call rotation (our systems are incredibly stable, so this is light duty)
• Contribute significantly to breaking down technical challenges and planning sprints with your team
• Take on loosely-defined / exploratory work in new-to-you areas of the codebase
• Confidently troubleshoot & analyze root cause of technical issues within the systems your team owns
• Define, plan, and execute on opportunities for technical features & refinements
• Investigate new tools & technologies, and evaluate their usefulness to your team’s systems & processes
• Contribute to knowledge sharing workshops on topics of interest for the R&D team (engineering / product / design)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, or serverless frameworks like Ruby on Jets
• Experience diagnosing and mitigating email-deliverability concerns (including proactive reputation-management steps)
• Familiarity with SMTP, and the points of articulation between the outbound server and the recipient’s inbox
• You are familiar with Real Estate and/or Mortgage Lending and the different stakeholders involved with homeownership

Benefits

• Medical (Aetna) / Dental (Sun Life) / Vision (VSP) Homebot covers 99% for the employee and 50% for dependents
• 401(k) match Homebot matches 100% on the first 3% and an additional 50% on the next 2% (Homebotter contributes 5% and receives 4% from Homebot!)
• Flexible Vacation Policy - we believe in taking care of yourself & rewarding team members so we offer flexible time off policy!
• 6 days of Sick/Mental Health time
• Paid Parental Leave - 12 Weeks!
• Hybrid Working Model - Blend Work From Home and In-Office Days
• Budget for Home Office Setup
• Denver EcoPass for light rail and bus system
• Office location in downtown Denver (modern, spacious 4-story with top floor deck ⛰)
• Relocation reimbursement for out-of-state moves to the Denver area
• Weekly catered lunches in-office on Thursdays
• Nitro cold brew, french press, smoothie bullet and snacks (vegan, gluten-free and food allergy safe options available)
• Rotating beer tap + stocked beer/wine fridge, hard kombucha, wine tap
• Fun quarterly events like Rockies games, holiday parties, etc
• Awesome culture! Awesome coworkers!
• We give back to the community (Habitat for Humanity, Giving Tree)
• Open work environment with sit/stand desks
• Financial Wellness Program
• Free Employee Assistance Program & Mental Health Coaches
• Educational Assistance Program
• Annual Training Budget for Professional Development