Senior Backend Engineer

Come join one of the best places to work in Denver (not kidding, check out our 4.5 rating on Glassdoor with 30+ reviews!) At Homebot, we believe that every team member has an important role to play in bringing our mission statement to life. How do we do this? By keeping a clear focus on culture and engagement, and creating an environment where people are valued! We’re looking for enthusiastic innovators to join us in revolutionizing how people build wealth with the single largest asset they’ll ever own — their home.

Homebot is a fintech company that helps users save money and build wealth by encouraging smart home finance decisions. We connect people to make informed homeownership decisions together. Our platform empowers consumers with personalized and actionable financial insights, and facilitates engagement with the experts through the full homeownership lifecycle.

We are scaling rapidly and need a creative and diligent Senior Backend Engineer to increase the capability and scalability of our core systems and integrations for our awesome customers!

If this opportunity gets you pumped - perfect! Apply below and we look forward to speaking with you very soon! (We also read cover letters so take a moment to tell us what makes you a great addition to the team!)

This is a full-time position based in our Denver, CO office. (We have a hybrid work model in place that allows employees to split their time between working in-office and from home a few days a week.) We also offer full-time remote (with quarterly visits to Denver) for folks based outside of the Denver area.

Compensation: We are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including skills, qualifications and professional experience, which can cause your compensation to vary. This role has an annual targeted base salary range of $145,000 - $170,000, plus an annual 10% performance bonus target.

For additional details on our total benefits package, please review the section “Why Homebot?” at the end of this job description.

The impact you’ll make by joining us:

Within 1 month you will:

• Understand the responsibilities of and interactions between our core services
• Pair with other engineers on your team to ship new features & refinements
• Connect with folks from all across the Homebot organization

Within 3 months you will:

• Ship pre-defined features / refinements from our roadmap
• Join our on-call rotation (our systems are incredibly stable, so this is light duty)

Within 6 months you will:

• Contribute significantly to breaking down technical challenges and planning sprints with your team
• Take on loosely-defined / exploratory work in new-to-you areas of the codebase
• Confidently troubleshoot & analyze root cause of technical issues within the systems your team owns

Within 1 year you will:

• Define, plan, and execute on opportunities for technical features & refinements
• Investigate new tools & technologies, and evaluate their usefulness to your team’s systems & processes
• Contribute to knowledge sharing workshops on topics of interest for the R&D team (engineering / product / design)

Who You’ll Collaborate With:

• This role will report to your team’s Engineering Manager
• You will work closely with product managers, integration managers, and adjacent engineering teams
• You will be part of 5 engineers on your team

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of production engineering experience
• Familiarity with concepts from Clean Code, SOLID principles, or similar
• 4-5+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
• 4+ years building scalable APIs
• Strong Postgres or other database experience
• Experience with Sidekiq, redis, memcache, Elasticsearch or similar
• Experience in scaling applications with a commitment to ensuring maintainability
• Ability to respond to situations in a timely manner, and meet personal commitments
• Comfortable RSpec or similar testing frameworks and understand solid testing principles.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, or serverless frameworks like Ruby on Jets
• Experience diagnosing and mitigating email-deliverability concerns (including proactive reputation-management steps)
• Familiarity with SMTP, and the points of articulation between the outbound server and the recipient’s inbox
• You are familiar with Real Estate and/or Mortgage Lending and the different stakeholders involved with homeownership

Characteristics of a Homebot Senior Backend Engineer

• Proactively improves the quality of the projects they’re working on
• Can envision and describe an ideal solution while being pragmatic in how we get there
• Communicates early & often — especially when they spot problems or opportunities
• Learns and moves projects forward, even when working with a new-to-them technology

Who We Strive To Be as Homebotters:

• We are Humbly Hungry
• We are Courageously Authentic
• We Challenge Limiting Beliefs
• We Keep our Eye on the Ball, Hand in the Dirt
• and we do all of this TOGETHER, as a team, and we have fun doing it!

Read about how we rolled out these new values to the organization!

Why Homebot?

We believe in a collaborative, fun work environment. And when we say we have an awesome culture, we mean it. The team members, aka Homebotters, are not only passionate about our product, but also about how they interact with each other. We push ourselves every day to be better, challenge each other to continuously grow, and to have fun doing it. We are professional when we need to be and goofy when it’s time to celebrate a win. We realize we might be a little biased so we encourage you to check out our Glassdoor reviews and visit BuiltinColorado’s Best Places to Work list (#82!) and Best Midsize Places to Work (#46) for 2023!

With the mortgage and tech industries being highly male-dominated, we're proud to be a tech company in the mortgage space with ~40% female employees across the organization. We encourage you to check out two of our awesome BuiltinColorado’s articles featuring one of our fantastic engineers!

We appreciate and value what our team members do every day, so we offer some amazing benefits to reward them:

Perks/Benefits:

• Medical (Aetna) / Dental (Sun Life) / Vision (VSP)
  • Homebot covers 99% for the employee and 50% for dependents
• 401(k) match
  • Homebot matches 100% on the first 3% and an additional 50% on the next 2% (Homebotter contributes 5% and receives 4% from Homebot!)
• Flexible Vacation Policy - we believe in taking care of yourself & rewarding team members so we offer flexible time off policy!
• 6 days of Sick/Mental Health time
• Paid Parental Leave - 12 Weeks!
• Hybrid Working Model - Blend Work From Home and In-Office Days
• Budget for Home Office Setup
• Denver EcoPass for light rail and bus system
• Office location in downtown Denver (modern, spacious 4-story with top floor deck ⛰)
• Weekly catered lunches in-office on Thursdays
• Nitro cold brew, french press, smoothie bullet and snacks (vegan, gluten-free and food allergy safe options available)
• Rotating beer tap + stocked beer/wine fridge, hard kombucha, wine tap
• Fun quarterly events like Rockies games, holiday parties, etc.
• Awesome culture! Awesome coworkers! (seriously, have you seen Glassdoor?)
• Open work environment with sit/stand desks
• Financial Wellness Program
• Free Employee Assistance Program & Mental Health Coaches
• Educational Assistance Program
• Annual Training Budget for Professional Development

Our DEI Mission

Homebot values and is strengthened by diversity. We believe that everyone comes from a diverse set of backgrounds and each member brings different skills to the group. With that, we’re committed to ensuring equity within as many aspects of our organization as we can.

Homebot is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we encourage all applicants to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We also encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description :)


More about Homebot

The problem we’re solving:

The US homeownership market is the largest asset class in the world at $30 trillion but is essentially an “unmanaged” asset that causes people to leave billions of dollars on the table every year. At the same time, loan officers and real estate agents spent $20 billion a year on desperate attempts to maintain mindshare and loyalty with their past clients in hopes of gaining more repeat and referral business.

Our solution:

Homebot is a client-for-life portal that maximizes repeat and referral business for lenders by empowering consumers to build wealth through homeownership. The award-winning client portal delivers personalized, actionable intelligence throughout the entire homeownership lifecycle to every client and prospect. With an average 50% monthly engagement rate, Homebot ensures lenders and agents remain the trusted advisors that consumers rely on to make informed decisions about the largest asset they may ever own, their home.

It’s definitely a game-changer and we are truly making an impact. Having launched in 2016, we're over 100 Homebotters strong and expect to continue that growth throughout the year. Join us!