Senior Backend Engineer

Title: Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Location: Remote US

Type: Full-Time

Category: Software Development

$145k - $175k

Job Description:

Come join one of the best places to work in Denver! At Homebot, we believe that every team member has an important role to play in bringing our mission statement to life. How do we do this? By keeping a clear focus on culture and engagement, and creating an environment where people are valued! We’re looking for enthusiastic innovators to join us in revolutionizing how people build wealth with the single largest asset they’ll ever own — their home.

We connect people to make informed homeownership decisions together. Homebot is a Homeownership Intent Platform that surfaces actionable data first so our customers can capture the client before the competition. Homebot drives repeat and referral business to our customers through our personalized financial dashboards.

Our R&D team is in need of a creative and diligent Senior Backend Engineer to increase the capability and scalability of our core systems and integrations for our awesome customers!

If this opportunity gets you pumped - perfect! Apply below and we look forward to speaking with you very soon!

This is a full-time position based in our Denver, CO office. (We have a hybrid work model in place that allows employees to split their time between working in-office and from home a few days a week.) We also offer full-time remote (with quarterly visits to Denver) for folks based outside of the Denver area.

Compensation: We are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including skills, qualifications and professional experience, which can cause your compensation to vary. This role has an annual targeted base salary range of $145,000 - $175,000, plus an annual 10% performance bonus target.

For additional details on our total benefits package, please review the section “Why Homebot?” at the end of this job description.

The impact you’ll make by joining us:

Within 1 month you will:

• 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

Within 3 months you will:

• Ship pre-defined features / refinements from our roadmap
• Join our on-call rotation (our systems are incredibly stable, so this is light duty)

Within 6 months you will:

• 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

Within 1 year you will:

• 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)

Who You’ll Collaborate With:

• This role will report to your team’s Engineering Manager
• You will work closely with product managers, integration managers, and adjacent engineering teams
• You will be part of 5 engineers on your team

What You Bring:

• 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.

Bonus Points:

• 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

Characteristics of a Homebot Senior Backend Engineer

• Proactively improves the quality of the projects they’re working on
• Can envision and describe an ideal solution while being pragmatic in how we get there
• Communicates early & often — especially when they spot problems or opportunities
• Learns and moves projects forward, even when working with a new-to-them technology

Who We Strive To Be as Homebotters:

• We are Humbly Hungry
• We are Courageously Authentic
• We Challenge Limiting Beliefs
• We Keep our Eye on the Ball, Hand in the Dirt
• and we do all of this TOGETHER, as a team, and we have fun doing it!

With the mortgage and tech industries being highly male-dominated, we're proud to be a tech company in the mortgage space with ~40% female employees across the organization.

We appreciate and value what our team members do every day, so we offer some amazing benefits to reward them:

Perks/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

Homebot values and is strengthened by diversity. We believe that everyone comes from a diverse set of backgrounds and each member brings different skills to the group. With that, we’re committed to ensuring equity within as many aspects of our organization as we can.