Staff Software Engineer

Procore Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Procore Technologies is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Backend in Bengaluru to drive technical direction and build systems impacting global construction projects. You’ll partner with Engineering, Product, and UX to deliver scalable Rails-based solutions, focusing on performance, security, and maintainability.

The role requires 8+ years in backend development (preferably Ruby on Rails) and strong API, SOA, and Agile experience, with fluent English communication across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of backend development experience, preferably with Ruby on Rails.
• Strong OOP, TDD, SOA and design principles.
• Knowledge of development lifecycle: testing, staging, deployment, monitoring.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Experience building APIs via REST or GraphQL.
• Strong documentation and ability to communicate complex solutions.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Rails monolith into a modular system with clear domain boundaries.
• Design and build solutions aligned with the technical vision.
• Dive deep into PostgreSQL to support complex queries.
• Improve performance, scalability, and security of the Rails backend.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and UX to deliver user-focused solutions.
• Communicate complex problems and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work with cross-team initiatives to connect construction stakeholders on a global platform.

Skills

Backend development

Ruby on Rails

Object-Oriented Programming

Test Driven Development

Service-Oriented Architecture

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

Agile/Scrum

Communication / Stakeholder comms

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

Job description

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend to join Procore’s Owners organization. In this role, you’ll drive the technical direction of our projects and help revolutionize a historically underserved industry. Your primary goal will be to develop products that impact how communities’ hospitals, homes, sports stadiums, and schools across the world are built.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you’ll partner with Engineering, Product, and UX teams to design and build solutions that delight users and solve critical business problems. Use your backend development experience, problem-solving skills, and ability to communicate complex solutions to enhance our technical projects. Join us in making a significant impact on one of the world’s least digitized and most dangerous industries—

This position reports to the Manager, Software Engineering and will be based in our Bangalore, India office. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.

What you’ll do:

• Evolve our existing codebase from a monolithic Rails application into a modular system with clear, well-enforced domain boundaries and a coherent public interface.
• Contribute to designing and building a system that aligns with our technical vision.
• Dive deep into the PostgreSQL database layer to handle complex querying needs.
• Enhance performance, flexibility, scalability, and security within our Rails backend.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and UX to design and build solutions that delight users and solve critical business problems.
• Communicate complex problems and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders through conversations and design documents..
• Collaborate across engineering teams on large-scale initiatives to further our goal of connecting everyone in construction on one global platform.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or comparable work experience.
• 8+ years of backend development experience, preferably with Ruby on Rails.
• Strong foundation in Object-Oriented Programming, Test Driven Development, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Design principles.
• Comprehensive knowledge of development processes, including development, testing, staging, deploying, and monitoring.
• Proven experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience maintaining and developing APIs through REST or GraphQL.
• Strong experience documenting and bringing team clarity to complex solutions.
• Track record of anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major projects and designing solutions to overcome those problems.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.