Staff Software Engineer, AI-Driven Integrations Platform

BuildOps; Toronto (OH); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity grant

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible PTO

Hybrid work schedules

Work-from-home allowance

Office hubs (LA, SF, Toronto, Raleigh)

Lunch provided on in-office days

Team events and activities

Career growth

Job summary

BuildOps, the largest commercial trade platform in the country, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Integration Platform. You will architect, build, and optimize data movement across the BuildOps ecosystem, lead technical decisions, and mentor engineers.

This role blends hands-on coding with strategic direction in a fast-paced, AI-native environment with hybrid work options. You will shape engineering direction, drive testing practices, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable,

Qualifications

• Experience leading large technical initiatives in JavaScript/TypeScript environments.
• Proven ability to design and evolve data integration platforms.
• Strong API design and system design capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain the integration and data platform from the ground up, using modern AI-native approaches to support expert agents across external systems and integrations
• Lead technical decisions across the stack, balancing performance, maintainability, scalability, and developer experience
• Design and optimize APIs and service patterns that support both product experiences and third-party integrations
• Improve database design, query performance, and data models to ensure efficient storage and retrieval at scale
• Drive observability and operational excellence across services through logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting, and performance analysis
• Contribute to and lead engineering-wide initiatives that improve customer experience, system performance, productivity, and knowledge sharing
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, patterns, and tooling that improve engineering efficiency and platform quality
• Define and reinforce strong testing practices across the stack in partnership with QA and engineering teams
• Mentor engineers through technical design reviews, architecture discussions, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Influence multiple engineering groups through technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration, not just direct ownership

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Leadership

Architectural design

Data integration

APIs design

Code optimization

Mentoring

Testing strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability practices

Tools

Node.js

GraphQL

RESTful services

PostgreSQL

Temporal

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

BuildOps, the largest commercial trade platform in the country, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Integration Platform. You will architect, build, and optimize data movement across the BuildOps ecosystem, lead technical decisions, and mentor engineers.

This role blends hands-on coding with strategic direction in a fast-paced, AI-native environment with hybrid work options. You will shape engineering direction, drive testing practices, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable,