Ruby (advanced)
Distributed systems (master)
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, and ultimately save 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 :
As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer , you will be leading a team of software engineers focusing on building and improving critical code and infrastructure in a distributed systems context.
You will guide improvements in the design, security, reliability, and observability of our systems, as well as the velocity with which our teams can make changes to these systems
This is a hands-on role! A qualified candidate must be interested in and capable of guiding the strategy and architectural work of a small (3-5 person) engineering squad.
We expect our leaders to lead from the front. A successful leader in our team enables others to do their best work, and to do that you need to understand the intimate details of working with our system.
Your responsibilities will include :
You will work as part of the larger Housecall Pro engineering team, collaborating to identify and implement the tooling they need to iterate the product lines rapidly and safely.
Your ultimate goal is to enable engineering to help our sales and marketing team deliver the best experience possible to current and future customers.
You will do that by building teams that create a solid, flexible, stable foundation that enables us to ship quickly and safely in the face of massive growth on legacy and greenfield platforms.
This position requires enthusiasm for the details of code and systems running in the wild. You will face challenges with systems running real users and data that require imagination, tenacity, and attention to detail.
Curiosity and the ability to learn on your feet will serve you well in this role.
Our Engineering team is extraordinary. We’re a hardworking and focused team driven to deliver industry-leading apps to our 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.
As a qualified candidate, all of the following apply to you :
You successfully teach others how to embrace Agile and improve their processes.
You know when to listen and when to push back. You keep cool under pressure.
As a qualified candidate, most of the following apply to you :
Accordingly, reading and reasoning about code you are not familiar with is a breeze
You understand how to run these with High Availability, and you know their limitations from experience.
You know which tools to use to debug or optimize a misbehaving instance or container.
You have used tools like AWS ECS , Kubernetes , Docker Swarm , or Mesos + Marathon .
You have used tools like GitLabCI, Travis , CircleCI , etc.
As an exceptional candidate, some or all of the following may apply to you :
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.