Come join one of the best places to work in Denver (not kidding, check out our 4.5 rating on Glassdoor with 30+ reviews!) 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 seeking joyous, Humanity-fueled professionals 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 consumer engagement and education platform that keeps people connected to their home advisors (loan officers and real estate agents). Homebot empowers consumers with personalized and actionable financial insights to make informed decisions about the largest asset they may ever own, their home.

We are scaling rapidly and need an approachable & methodical
DevOps Engineer to Empower Product R&D squads to scale & iterate efficiently and safely through stewardship of Homebot’s deployment pipeline, devops & chatops tooling, infrastructure and applications. To Champion Developer Experience, fostering a culture that embraces continuous improvement, automation, and risk management.

If this opportunity gets you pumped - perfect! Apply below and we look forward to speaking with you very soon! (We also read cover letters so take a moment to tell us what makes you a great addition to the team!)

This is a full-time position based in our Denver, CO office. We will consider full-remote (US Resident) candidates for this position, and for those located near Denver, we also have a hybrid work model in place that encourages employees to split their time between working in-office and from home a few days a week.

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 $125,000 — $143,000, 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:
  • Integrate as newest member of our hybrid workforce, investing some screen time & face-to-face time working & bonding over a beverage or recipe of choice, a match of ping pong, and excellent technical challenges across the tech stack
  • Develop a high-level understanding of the various products, services, processes and technologies used across R&D
  • Pair with engineers & engineering managers on each of our 6 product squads to develop relationships and familiarize yourself with the value that each squad serves & challenges they face
  • Partner with Mobile, ETL & Data squads to understand existing cloud infrastructure workflows and pain points
  • Build and maintain core infrastructure, especially with regards to managing IAM, containers, k8s, RDS and other AWS products, using Terraform & CDK, minimizing ClickOps
  • Build, support, and maintain features for ourDevOps & ChatOps tooling to elevate Developer Experience (written in go)
  • Identify, migrate & prune systems that have reached end-of-life, or are due for some form of migration or upgrade
  • Steward at least 1 On-Call rotation in support of infrastructure, deploy & DevEx issues when they come up
  • Help our esteemed & studious junior colleagues to level up, get plenty of support & challenge
  • Join our AppSec steering committee & biweekly roundtable sessions to continuously iterate on our AppSec Champions Program
• Within 3 months you will:
  • Continuously enhance our CI/CD pipelines
  • Instrument & operationalize DORA metrics
  • Close observability gaps across our tech stack
  • Reduce release-time from commit to production
  • Assist the organization in embracing microservices architecture & 
  • Work with engineering leadership to identify & establish key metrics, SLOs
• Within 6-12 months you will:
  • Instrument & operationalize squad-specific + service-specific
    change-failure-rate monitoring & alerting
  • Work with engineering management to usher in a formalized SDLC Program to operate alongside R&D’s PDLC

Who You’ll Collaborate With:

• This role will report to Engineering Manager, DevSecOps + QA
• You will work closely with R&D Product Squads to support Developer Experience & AppSec Programs
• You will be part of our foundational & multidisciplinary DevSecOps + QA squad as a shining Individual among 7 other fantastic Humans

What You Bring: 

DevOps & ChatOps Tooling Stewardship

• Go or similar programming language experience
• Documentation & technical writing skills, exceptional partner communicating technical matters & business risks for varying audiences
• Experience in frequent-deploy Agile release PDLC environments
  (organization deploying multiple times / day to production)
• Thoughtful about considering DevOps impacts & opportunities alongside AppSec & Infra competing priorities
• Experience working in a SaaS Product or tech startup environment
• Supporting product squad deploy capabilities
  • Friendly remote-first support
  • Patient & blameless troubleshooting
  • Bash / Zsh shell scripting
  • CI/CD Pipelines

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Expertise

• Experience in frequent-deploy Agile release PDLC
  organizations, deploying multiple times / day to production
• Familiarity with AWS & GCP Cloud Services, including CloudWatch, AMI, k8s & Container Management, RDS, EBS, VPCs, IAM, EC2, S3, SNS
• Infrastructure as code, e.g. terraform or cloudformation
• Ready to apply scalable & automatable cloud infrastructure solutions that grow alongside the organization’s R&D organization
• Setting up & maintaining Dockerized services
• Ability to communicate business risks of technical vulnerabilities, impact of security incidents & unexpected infrastructure events
• Consistent application of Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Developer Certification
• Experience with at least a few of the following:
  • Designing secure networks
  • IAM Management
  • Vulnerability & dependency management
  • Go
  • Git
  • Ruby / Rails
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis, Sidekiq
  • ElasticSearch, Kibana
  • Grafana / Loki / Prometheus

Complementary Skills / Competencies (nice-to-have)

• Experience with cloud infrastructure security and / or AppSec
  • Vulnerability management & compliance assurance
  • Secure access control management
  • Threat modeling
• Experience building out processes, programs & frameworks used by an engineering community
• Experience working in a SaaS web product and / or tech startup environment
• Experience in established SRE / DevSecOps environments
• Skilled with containerization & microservices 
• Experience in FinTech or Real Estate Tech
• Real Estate Industry Knowledge

Characteristics of a Homebot DevOps Engineer

• Vigilant & Methodical
• Values different perspectives & backgrounds
• Seeks first to Understand, then to be Understood
• Patient, friendly, approachable & coachable!
  • An excellent candidate will put others at-ease and transmit a sense of calm & patience.
    Our colleagues must feel safe to confide security concerns with you & seek advice trusting that you’ll seek to provide expert counsel & support
• Collaborative Force Multiplier
• A Solutions Creator who takes initiative and proactively seeks to add value
• A quick learner, eager to grow by helping where there are needs
• Confident, adaptable self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Efficiency-focused - always looking for new processes and tools to increase efficiency
• Collaborative, gritty, and resourceful
• A positive, ‘get it done’ attitude
• Action-oriented – seeking guidance & support when confronted with obstacles
• Willing to joyfully challenge the status quo in search of the best-fit solution, with strong opinions loosely held
• Passionate about the details - nothing slips through the cracks!
• You are always curious; you maintain a learner’s mind in all aspects of the job, identifying and testing assumptions to get to the heart of a situation!
• You get stoked about joining a scaling team, where you can own initiatives, take on hats outside your role, and evolve this position to deliver maximum value to our teams and your career

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!

Read about how we rolled out these new values to the organization!

Why Homebot?

We believe in a collaborative, fun work environment. And when we say we have an awesome culture, we mean it. The team members, aka Homebotters, are not only passionate about our product, but also about how they interact with each other. We push ourselves every day to be better, challenge each other to continuously grow, and to have fun doing it. We are professional when we need to be and goofy when it’s time to celebrate a win. We realize we might be a little biased so we encourage you to check out our Glassdoor reviews and visit BuiltinColorado’s Best Places to Work list (#82!) and Best Midsize Places to Work (#46) for 2023!

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 (Aetna) / 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 a 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 ⛰)
• Weekly catered lunches in-office on Thursdays
• Nitro cold brew, french press, and snacks (vegan, gluten-free and food allergy safe options available)
• Stocked beer/wine fridge
• Fun quarterly events like Rockies games, holiday parties, etc.
• Awesome culture! Awesome coworkers! (seriously, have you seen Glassdoor?)
• 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

Our DEI Mission

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. 

Homebot is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we encourage all applicants to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We also encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description :)

More about Homebot

Problem we’re solving:

The US homeownership market is the largest asset class in the world at $30 trillion but is essentially an “unmanaged” asset that causes people to leave billions of dollars on the table every year. At the same time, loan officers and real estate agents spent $20 billion a year on desperate attempts to maintain mindshare and loyalty with their past clients in hopes of gaining more repeat and referral business.

Our solution:

Homebot is a client-for-life portal that maximizes repeat and referral business for lenders by empowering consumers to build wealth through homeownership. The award-winning client portal delivers personalized, actionable intelligence throughout the entire homeownership lifecycle to every client and prospect. With an average 50% monthly engagement rate, Homebot ensures lenders and agents remain the trusted advisors that consumers rely on to make informed decisions about the largest asset they may ever own, their home. 

It’s definitely a game-changer and we are truly making an impact. Having launched in 2016, we're over 100 Homebotters strong and expect to continue that growth throughout the year. Join us!

Check out our website at www.homebot.ai