Director of Engineering, Data at Buildops · LumiJobs
senior
$170k–$210k
H1B: no
Buildops Senior Software Engineer at BuildOps designs and maintains frontend and backend product features and systems. The role involves owning projects end-to-end, improving system reliability, and mentoring engineers while leveraging AI tools.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain high-quality product features and systems across frontend and backend applications
Own projects through the full lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through rollout, monitoring, and long-term maintenance
Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and well-scoped milestones
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with a strong bias toward simplicity, reliability, and long-term extensibility
Build user-facing experiences and supporting APIs that work well across client, service, and data boundaries
Design systems with observability and reliability in mind, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, and health checks that help the team detect and resolve issues quickly
Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the products and systems your team owns
Proactively identify technical risks, cross-team dependencies, and sources of toil before they become execution bottlenecks
Contribute to design reviews, technical discussions, and architecture decisions with clear thinking and sound judgment
Mentor less-experienced engineers through code review, technical guidance, and example-setting
Help strengthen engineering culture by sharing knowledge, improving standards, and contributing to a collaborative, high-accountability environment
Leverage AI tools thoughtfully across development, debugging, documentation, and workflow acceleration while maintaining strong engineering judgment
Qualification
Comfortable navigating complexA generousExperience with TypeScriptExperience with cloud infrastructureFamiliarity with KafkaExperience building integrationsExperience in SaaS
Required
A senior craftsperson hungry to make a bigger impact—not coasting on tenure
Someone who respectfully challenges the status quo and shows the team a better path
Comfortable navigating complex, ambiguous projects and moving between problem areas without losing the thread
A generous, low-ego teammate genuinely invested in the growth of the designers around you
Relentlessly committed to craft and to creating exceptional user experiences
Someone who cares deeply about doing excellent work that helps make people's lives better
Preferred
Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or other modern application stacks
Experience with React or similar frontend frameworks
Experience with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, or infrastructure-as-code tooling
Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, or other event-driven and high-throughput systems
Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
Experience building integrations, internal platform capabilities, or data pipelines
Experience in SaaS, vertical software, or systems that support operational workflows
Experience using Claude Code or similar AI coding agents in day-to-day development workflows
