Senior Software Engineer

## About the role As a Senior Software Engineer, you bring strong engineering fundamentals, deep problem-solving ability, and the capacity to navigate complex systems with clarity and intention. You focus on systems thinking, scalable architecture, and writing clean, maintainable code that delivers meaningful value to our customers. In this role, you will lead technical decision-making, drive projects from design through production operations, and collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering partners to shape impactful user experiences. You will help define and champion technical best practices, elevate the quality of our systems, and mentor fellow engineers as the team continues to grow. Our engineering culture is passionate, empathetic, and driven by a shared mission: improving the lives of our service professionals, our Pros. Your contributions will play a critical role in enabling their success and strengthening the foundation of our product for years to come. ## Responsibilities In your day to day, you will: - Build a product that improves users' lives (75k unique daily users, 4.6 ⭐at App Store) - Lead architecture discussions and drive system design, data modeling, and service reliability implementations that strengthen our platform - Own projects end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment and monitoring - Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering to deliver high-quality, maintainable, and high-performance software solutions - Define and champion technical direction, standards, and best practices as we scale - Continuously learn, share knowledge, and mentor developers across your team, giving feedback to junior developers and peers on technical designs, merge requests, and other areas - Deliver solutions that underscore performance, stability, extensibility, supportability and security - Lead AI tool adoption strategies and encourage best practices across your team ## Requirements We think this role is for you if have... - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience - Experience designing and building resilient and highly scalable applications - Experience mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers - Ability to operate independently, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver in fast-moving environments - Product-first mindset with a focus on delivering business and user value - Interest in leveraging AI technologies to enhance productivity, quality, and innovation - This position requires fluency in English ## Nice to have How we work 📌 Our primary technology stack at HCP is Ruby. To be effective in this role, you'll need to learn it. We offer support in the learning process, tailored to your needs and any prior experience with Ruby. This may include mentoring from our experienced engineering team or access to a paid online course that you can complete during working hours as part of your onboarding. The exact form of support will be agreed upon based on insights from your selection process. ## What we offer We also offer: - Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it scheduled time off - A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from - A MacBook set up and ready from day one, plus a $500 stipend to design your ideal workspace - Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs ## About the company Let's talk numbers! Our compensation range for this role begins at $6000 USD per month