Senior Software Engineer (Mobile Backend-for-Frontend)

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join Procore's Mobile BFF team. In this role, you'll help revolutionize a historically underserved industry by building scalable SaaS solutions. Your primary goal is to translate fundamental customer needs into robust backend architectures that power Procore's mobile experiences.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you'll partner with infrastructure, platform, and product teams to design and build the GraphQL BFF services that Procore's iOS and Android apps consume directly. Use your experience in distributed systems and strategic mindset to help shape development standards and contribute to technical initiatives. Join us to build software that shapes the physical world.

This position is hybrid and reports to a Manager, Software Engineering based in Austin, TX.

What you'll do

• Contribute to technical standards for the Mobile BFF team and collaborate on cross-functional initiatives with backend feature teams, infrastructure, and platform teams.
• Build and maintain scalable GraphQL BFF services using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Java, hosted on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Mentor and develop fellow teammates by conducting code reviews, pairing, and providing technical guidance.
• Design and implement backend systems that balance immediate operational needs with long-term strategic goals.
• Enhance and maintain modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) systems (using CircleCI and ArgoCD) to support rapid deployment.
• Ensure system reliability and performance by overseeing testing, staging, deployment, and monitoring processes across the development lifecycle.
• Leverage a tech stack that includes Postgres, TypeScript, and an evolving microservices architecture to solve complex problems.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on fundamentals, Test Driven Development (TDD), and system design.
• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or Java is highly preferred; GraphQL or other BFF/API-layer experience is a plus.
• Experience working with software, platforms, and infrastructure at scale.
• Familiarity with modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery systems.
• Ability to understand tradeoffs between short-term and long-term goals to balance immediate needs with strategic initiatives.
• Experience working closely with mobile teams or hands-on iOS/Android development experience is a strong plus.

Additional Information

Base Pay Range

140,960.00 - 193,820.00 USD Annual

This role may also be eligible for Equity Compensation and/or Bonus Incentive Compensation. Procore is committed to offering competitive, fair, and commensurate compensation. Actual compensation will be based on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Procore will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing, accessing, and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information, as well as accessing Procore's information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers, stakeholders, and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment.