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Staff Software Engineer – Ruby, RoR

Title: Staff Software Engineer – Ruby/RoR

Location: United States

Why Housecall Pro?

Help us build solutions that build better lives. At Housecall Pro, we show up to work every day to make a difference for real people: the home service professionals that support America’s 100 million homes.

We’re all about the Pro, and dedicate our days to helping them streamline operations, scale their businesses, and ultimately save time so they can be with their families and live well. We care deeply about our customers and foster a culture where our company, employees, and Pros grow and succeed together. Leadership is as focused on growing team members’ careers as they expect their teams to be on creating solutions for Pros.

We also offer:

  • A generous benefits program that supports the whole you with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and 401(k)
  • Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it paid time off
  • Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs
  • Monthly tech reimbursements
  • A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from

The role: Staff Software Engineer – Ruby/RoR

Your primary focus will be to work directly with the product management team to conceive, develop, and refine our core web applications and deliver outstanding experiences and value to our customers. You will work in an iterative, data driven environment to refine the application. Your leadership skills will be important in mentoring junior teammates, leading a team and conducting rigorous code reviews across the teams you work with. A strong commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential. Your customer-centric focus is critical for our and our customers’ success.

What you’ll be doing

  • Design, develop and deploy features for Housecall Pro’s core Ruby/RoR applications
  • Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
  • Work with product management to refine initial concepts features that deliver customer delight
  • Build and execute a high velocity of smart, highly performant server side A/B tests to increase business metrics
  • Understand clear sub-system boundaries, and make recommendations on where functionality belongs across different sub-systems
  • Develop and maintain code quality standards and enforce them across the team
  • Continually introduce architectural improvements and refactorings to the code baseline
  • Write automated tests at the appropriate architectural level
  • Conduct code reviews and architectural reviews for features developed by other members of the team
  • Lead feature teams in their weekly iterations
  • Maintain and improve our continuous integration and development environments

Core qualifications

  • Ability to work at a fast pace with a drive to quickly deliver value to our customers
  • BS, MS or Ph.D in a computer science / computer engineering program
  • 4 – 10 years industry experience developing commercial Ruby/RoR applications
  • 2 – 4 years experience leading teams and performing code reviews
  • Advanced knowledge of Ruby/RoR
  • Strong architectural ability within Ruby/RoR
  • Can communicate and work independently with non-technical stakeholders to see through large epics
  • Depth of understanding and teaching ability in clean code, refactoring, and test-driven development
  • Familiarity with ReSTful APIs used to connect our Android, iOS, and Javascript applications to the web application
  • Strong understanding of underlying systems architecture
  • Independently gain knowledge and opinions on multiple systems
  • Researches and assesses current and new technologies
  • Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
  • Strong proficiency with continuous integration/continuous deployment

Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service.

Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes BuildBook, construction management software for builders and remodelers, and CONQUER, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success.

We support more than 25,000 businesses and have over 1,000 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving employees across the United States and all over the world. If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you.

Housecall Pro celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law.

-Remote

Location Dependent Information
This role is open to candidates and the expected salary range for this role is $150,000-$165,000
. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible to participate in Housecall Pro’s equity plan and the following benefits: health care insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability), employee assistance program, 401(K), flexible time off, paid parental leave, tech reimbursement, and other company benefits. Housecall Pro is growing fast and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth.