Distinguished Software Engineer, Platform Architecture

Housecall Pro•Denver, CO

34d•$216,000 - $270,000•Remote

About The Position

Help us build solutions that build better lives. At Housecall Pro, we show up to work every day to make a difference for real people: the home service professionals that support America's 100 million homes. We're all about the Pro, and dedicate our days to helping them streamline operations, scale their businesses, and-ultimately-save time so they can be with their families and live well. We care deeply about our customers and foster a culture where our company, employees, and Pros grow and succeed together. Leadership is as focused on growing team members' careers as they expect their teams to be on creating solutions for Pros. As a Distinguished Software Engineer, you define and lead the architectural evolution of our platform infrastructure. You are among the most senior technical experts at the company, establishing technical vision and driving platform architecture across critical services like devops, monolith to microservice migration, payments, billing, identity, search and more. You operate with a broad mandate, partnering with senior leadership to translate business priorities-including enterprise readiness, AI integrations, and compliance into architectural strategy and scalable execution. As a trusted advisor to teams across the organization, you mentor senior engineers, guide major technical decisions, and help instill a strong engineering culture centered around excellence, velocity, and platform thinking. You bring the vision from the board room to the codebase and system design assuring alignment to serving our customers and the business . Our team is passionate, empathetic, hard working, and above all else focused on improving the lives of our service professionals (our Pros). Our success is their success.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in software engineering, with extensive background in designing distributed, cloud-based systems
Deep expertise in platform services such as payments, billing, identity, data, and APIs
Demonstrated success delivering large-scale systems and influencing across organizational boundaries
Proven experience establishing architectural strategies and patterns that scale across teams
Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks (i.e. Ruby, React, JavaScript, Python, Java, Node.js)
Strong command of development methodologies and tools (i.e. Agile, Scrum, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling)
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

Ability to lead without authority and influence technical direction across teams and leaders
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to distill complex systems into clear guidance for technical and equally non-technical stakeholders
Passion for mentoring and developing senior technical talent
Strategic thinking paired with pragmatic decision-making under ambiguity
Commitment to raising the bar on engineering quality, velocity, and impact

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the technical architecture for platform services, enabling enterprise scale and developer velocity
Establish and drive adoption of architectural patterns, platform standards, and reusable primitives across engineering
Collaborate with senior leaders to align platform architecture with long-term business and product strategy
Lead cross-functional design reviews and provide architectural guidance for high-impact, company-wide initiatives
Identify and address technical debt and system bottlenecks across teams and domains
Mentor senior engineers, embedding technical excellence and platform thinking throughout the organization
Contribute hands-on to foundational components when needed, modeling scalable and secure solutions
Promote best practices through architectural documentation, tech talks, and internal training
Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies that enhance platform reliability, performance, and maintainability

Benefits

A generous benefits program that supports the whole you with medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and 401(k)
Paid holidays and flexible, take-it-as-you-need-it paid time off
Equity in a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier VCs
Monthly tech reimbursements
A culture built on innovation that values big ideas, no matter where they come from
health care insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability)
employee assistance program
401(K)
flexible time off
paid parental leave
tech reimbursement
other company benefits