Senior Backend Engineer

Want to move fast, build with AI, and ship products that reach millions? We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and grow our applications while keeping the platform fast, reliable, and scalable.

Homebot is a homeownership platform for lenders and real estate, title, and insurance professionals that drives client retention and referrals. We help homeowners build wealth through homeownership while keeping our customers connected to their clients for life.

This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Denver office. The team works in office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What You'll Be Accountable For

• Build and grow our applications, services, and APIs by shipping new features and enhancements.

• Own implementation end to end, using AI tooling to deliver features from idea to production quickly and responsibly.

• Create AI-driven workflows and automation that streamline how we work.

• Collaborate through code reviews, technical planning, and architecture discussions.

• Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to shape the roadmap and solve hard problems.

• Ship maintainable, well-tested code that scales.

Collaboration

• Reports to an Engineering Leader

• Works cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams

Experience & Qualifications

• You have 3+ years building production-grade software. You're a capable full-stack engineer comfortable working in TypeScript, React, Ruby on Rails, and more.

• You think in APIs and services. You've built and consumed REST and GraphQL APIs. You keep services decoupled, typed, and scalable.

• You build with AI. You use AI-powered dev tools and agentic workflows daily, and you own the code you ship and the decisions behind it.

• You build for quality. You write clean, testable code with strong typing and runtime validation. You test behavior over implementation.

• You care how it runs, and how it's used. You instrument what you build with monitoring, logging, tracing, and product analytics like Amplitude.

• You know your way around data. Solid grasp of relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQL).

• You're a collaborative teammate. You communicate clearly, give and take thoughtful code reviews, and enjoy working with product and design.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with the home buying, lending, and real estate process

• Experience with microservice architectures and decomposing monoliths

• A track record of shipping AI-powered or agentic features

• Hands-on with GraphQL at scale

• Exposure to data tooling like Snowflake, Airflow, or dbt

Characteristics of a Homebot Engineer

• A positive, solution-oriented thinker who takes initiative and adds value

• Driven to learn and take on hard problems

• Enjoys helping peers and learning from them in turn

• A pragmatist who places a high value on code quality

• A strong understanding of the value that tests provide

Compensation & Benefits

Homebot is committed to offering competitive pay and benefits reflective of the Denver market. Compensation is determined based on a variety of factors, including skills, qualifications, and professional experience. In addition to base salary and a company-performance bonus, all full-time employees are eligible to receive Equity Appreciation Rights (stock units) as part of their total compensation package, providing an opportunity to share in Homebot's long-term growth and success.

Compensation

This role has an annual targeted base salary range of $145,000 - $175,000.

Perks/Benefits

• Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) match

• Flexible Vacation Policy

• 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave for all parents

• Access to Wellhub with employer discount

• Home office budget upon hire

• Denver EcoPass or paid parking

• Lunch delivery service in-office on Thursdays

• Annual learning & development budget

• Pet insurance offering

• Hybrid working model - Tuesdays and Thursdays are in-office at our RiNo space

• Onsite gym

Homebot Values and Culture

Homebot is enriched by a variety of personalities and perspectives on our team. We believe that everyone comes from a diverse set of backgrounds and every team member brings different skills to the collective.

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 including transgender status, national origin/ancestry, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, marital status, familial status or veteran status. Research shows that underrepresented groups may hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't check every box!

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

• We win, lose and grow as a team, together!