Top Benefits
Stock options
Paid parental leave
Generous paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about Ruby on Rails, care deeply about backend craftsmanship, love solving ambiguous platform problems, and want to shape the future of mobile experience at Homebase, we want to meet you
- 3-5 years of backend engineering experience, with a strong foundation in building production Rails applications
- Strong Ruby on Rails experience—including idiomatic Ruby, patterns, performance tuning, and familiarity with Rails internals
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, domain modeling, and API design
- Strong experience with SQL, relational data modeling, and schema design for performance and scalability
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems or platform services that support multiple client teams (mobile, web, or cross-functional)
- Comfort with logging, monitoring, alerting, and reliability tooling to diagnose and prevent production issues
- Experience with automated testing (RSpec or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and release management
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, propose solutions, and drive architectural decision-making
- AI fluency—you experiment with AI tooling, integrate automation into your workflow, and continuously improve your development velocity
- 💜 Belonging at Homebase - We're committed to fostering a welcoming space where every Homie can be their full self. Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend-Focused, to join our Mobile Platform team, the group responsible for the shared services, backend architecture, and platform capabilities that power Homebase’s next-generation mobile experiences
- You’ll design and scale the backend systems behind our mobile app—including APIs, orchestration layers, platform services, and the infrastructure that enables the team to deliver fast, reliable, high-impact features
- Your work will accelerate our journey toward an AI-powered mobile assistant manager, supporting workflows like action consolidation, automated triage, and intelligent task routing
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Ruby on Rails that power cross-team mobile workflows, including authentication, messaging, permissions, user actions, and notification routing
- Drive architectural design across platform services—evaluating tradeoffs, improving service boundaries, and enabling a more modular, resilient backend ecosystem
- Consolidate user requests into a centralized action board, enabling our mobile app to surface, prioritize, and automate managerial tasks
- Partner deeply with Mobile Platform engineers to create seamless API contracts, improve release triage processes, and support platform-wide backend reliability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize query patterns, improve caching strategies, and elevate observability across critical services
- Improve developer velocity by refining technical standards, improving documentation, simplifying service integration points, and enabling other teams to build on top of platform services
- Mentor engineers on backend fundamentals, architectural decision-making, and operational excellence
- Apply AI tools to accelerate engineering workflows—including code generation, testing, debugging, documentation, observability insights, and prototyping
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to ship impactful customer experiences with speed and quality
The application process
- Meet the Talent Acquisition team, Ryan H
- Participate in a Live Coding Interview (Ruby + Backend)
- Participate in a Technical Deep Dive
- Meet Cross-functional Partners
- Meet the Hiring Manager, Zeev V
- Background Check + Offer Stage
- Welcome to the team, Homie 🎉
Benefits
- Stock Options
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid time off options
- Offsites, customer days & social events
- Work from Anywhere Month
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) matching program
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
- MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
- Group health benefits coverage
- Group RRSP with employer match + TFSA
- Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
- MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
About Homebase
Software Development
5001-10,000
Our mission is to make small business teams unstoppable.
Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, and HR. More than 100,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and superpower their teams.
Best Time Clock 2023 - The Motley Fool Best Scheduling 2023 - Investopedia Best HR & Employee App 2023 - The Webby Awards Best employee communication tool ever! - Theresa Fouquette, Owner, Bliss Small Batch Creamery
America's Best Startup Employers 2024 - Forbes
Top Benefits
Stock options
Paid parental leave
Generous paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about Ruby on Rails, care deeply about backend craftsmanship, love solving ambiguous platform problems, and want to shape the future of mobile experience at Homebase, we want to meet you
- 3-5 years of backend engineering experience, with a strong foundation in building production Rails applications
- Strong Ruby on Rails experience—including idiomatic Ruby, patterns, performance tuning, and familiarity with Rails internals
- Deep understanding of object-oriented programming, domain modeling, and API design
- Strong experience with SQL, relational data modeling, and schema design for performance and scalability
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems or platform services that support multiple client teams (mobile, web, or cross-functional)
- Comfort with logging, monitoring, alerting, and reliability tooling to diagnose and prevent production issues
- Experience with automated testing (RSpec or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and release management
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, propose solutions, and drive architectural decision-making
- AI fluency—you experiment with AI tooling, integrate automation into your workflow, and continuously improve your development velocity
- 💜 Belonging at Homebase - We're committed to fostering a welcoming space where every Homie can be their full self. Experience comes in many forms—so if you're excited about this role, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend-Focused, to join our Mobile Platform team, the group responsible for the shared services, backend architecture, and platform capabilities that power Homebase’s next-generation mobile experiences
- You’ll design and scale the backend systems behind our mobile app—including APIs, orchestration layers, platform services, and the infrastructure that enables the team to deliver fast, reliable, high-impact features
- Your work will accelerate our journey toward an AI-powered mobile assistant manager, supporting workflows like action consolidation, automated triage, and intelligent task routing
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Ruby on Rails that power cross-team mobile workflows, including authentication, messaging, permissions, user actions, and notification routing
- Drive architectural design across platform services—evaluating tradeoffs, improving service boundaries, and enabling a more modular, resilient backend ecosystem
- Consolidate user requests into a centralized action board, enabling our mobile app to surface, prioritize, and automate managerial tasks
- Partner deeply with Mobile Platform engineers to create seamless API contracts, improve release triage processes, and support platform-wide backend reliability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize query patterns, improve caching strategies, and elevate observability across critical services
- Improve developer velocity by refining technical standards, improving documentation, simplifying service integration points, and enabling other teams to build on top of platform services
- Mentor engineers on backend fundamentals, architectural decision-making, and operational excellence
- Apply AI tools to accelerate engineering workflows—including code generation, testing, debugging, documentation, observability insights, and prototyping
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to ship impactful customer experiences with speed and quality
The application process
- Meet the Talent Acquisition team, Ryan H
- Participate in a Live Coding Interview (Ruby + Backend)
- Participate in a Technical Deep Dive
- Meet Cross-functional Partners
- Meet the Hiring Manager, Zeev V
- Background Check + Offer Stage
- Welcome to the team, Homie 🎉
Benefits
- Stock Options
- Paid parental leave
- Generous paid time off options
- Offsites, customer days & social events
- Work from Anywhere Month
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) matching program
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
- MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
- Group health benefits coverage
- Group RRSP with employer match + TFSA
- Snacks + lunch on us at hub offices
- MasterClass at Work for ongoing learning
About Homebase
Software Development
5001-10,000
Our mission is to make small business teams unstoppable.
Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, and HR. More than 100,000 small (but mighty) businesses rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and superpower their teams.
Best Time Clock 2023 - The Motley Fool Best Scheduling 2023 - Investopedia Best HR & Employee App 2023 - The Webby Awards Best employee communication tool ever! - Theresa Fouquette, Owner, Bliss Small Batch Creamery
America's Best Startup Employers 2024 - Forbes