Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be joining an impactful team of highly skilled engineers who are building the core platform features and services to fuel our rapidly growing company. The Backend team focuses on developing world-class services and integrations, ensuring our apps are secure, high-performing, and scalable. We’re looking for a Sr. Backend Engineer to take the lead in planning and developing the architecture for future critical systems while keeping our current customers in production happy.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain our production services at scale
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack to deliver an amazing user experience
• Develop seamless integrations between Fieldwire and external services and partners
• Lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions for the team
• Mentor other engineers on best practices
• Improve Fieldwire’s engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Release a rapidly growing API while ensuring 100% backward compatibility
• Build services with efficient auto-scaling to handle both peak and non-peak loads
• Architect end-to-end systems to enable syncing large volumes of data in real time

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of production web application experience
• Expertise in modern web application development and relational databases
• Ability to write clean, well-tested, and modular code that your colleagues can own, understand, and maintain
• Deep understanding of algorithms and data structures

Nice-to-have Skills

• Experience with Ruby on Rails and its ecosystem
• Worked with high-traffic web applications and services
• Well-versed with Docker and containerization
• Familiarity with AWS

Pay

The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000.00 - $195,000.00. The salary range represents the low and high end for this job in the US and may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will consider skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to salary, you may be eligible for a corporate bonus of up to 30%.

About the Company

Fieldwire by Hilti is the field-first construction platform for less busywork and more building. Trusted on 4M+ projects worldwide, Fieldwire gives crews reliable access to plans, tasks, and updates on one simple platform. It unites the field and office around a single, transparent source of truth, keeping teams aligned from start to finish. As part of the Hilti Group, Fieldwire combines deep construction expertise with modern digital innovation to deliver better outcomes on every job.

Location

This role is fully remote within the US or based in San Francisco, CA. Our office is located near Montgomery BART station and is easily accessible by public transportation.