Lead Software Engineer- Ruby on Rails/API

| Greater Denver Area
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**We are currently considering candidates outside of San Diego and Denver**

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, andultimatelysave 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: Sr. Ruby/RoR Software Engineer, API Developer

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on advanced projects on our flagship Ruby/RoR API. Ideally, you have experience working with API’s - not only from the user end, but as the producer.

With a burgeoning app store and more companies requesting to integrate every day, we’re looking for the next Senior Ruby/ROR Software Engineer to build, shape, and support our public API. You will be responsible for the development and refinement of our public API, documentation, as well as communication with third party developers to ensure their success when integrating, while protecting Housecall Pro’s data and interests. 

We know with certainty, from quantitative and qualitative data, that Pros who use our platform grow their businesses. In this role, you would be an integral part of expanding the Housecall Pro functionality to further promote such growth and success for 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 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.

You are the right person for this role if you are: curious and a critical thinker, passionate about helping others, and great at maintaining relationships. You are self-motivated. You are a team player and goal-oriented. You are a risk-taker and not afraid to break the rules in order to prove something you believe in.  

Our Engineering team is extraordinary. We’re a hardworking and focused team driven to deliver industry-leading apps to our service professional customers. Our success is their success. Our team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused team members are the "engine room" of Housecall Pro, helping our customers operate and grow their businesses.


What you'll be doing

  • Develop, document, and deploy updates to Housecall Pro’s public API, built on Ruby/RoR
  • Support and communicate with third party developers
  • Identify and mitigate potential API risks 
  • 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
  • Stay up to date with new Growth and Personalization tools
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
  • 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
  • 3-10 years industry experience developing commercial Ruby/RoR applications
  • 1-2 years experience leading teams and performing code reviews
  • Advanced knowledge of Ruby/RoR
  • Data Driven
  • Attention to detail 
  • Familiarity with RESTful APIs used to connect our Android, iOS, and Javascript applications to the web application
  • Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools 
  • Proficient understanding of Git
  • Strong proficiency with continuous integration/continuous deployment
  • Experience with Kotlin a plus
  • Experience with Swift a plus
  • Experience with Javascript/React a plus
  • Experience with MaterialUI a plus

 

Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro champions home service professionals by giving them the tools to work simpler and grow smarter across all aspects of their business. Our core SaaS software platform helps Pros with scheduling, dispatching, job management, invoicing, payment processing, marketing, and more. We support more than 20,000 businesses and have over 400 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving employees in San Diego, Denver, and all over the world. If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that’ll 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 for all employees with equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Housecall Pro is an equal opportunity employer; committed to an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

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We are actively hiring in San Diego, CA and Denver, CO. Majority of our employees work remotely but we have an office in the RINO district if employees choose to come in.

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