Distinguished Software Engineer, Platform Architecture

Why Housecall Pro?

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.  We also offer:

• 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

 

Role Overview

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.

What you do each day:

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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

What will help you succeed:

• 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

Founded in 2013, Housecall Pro helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business. With easy-to-use tools for scheduling, dispatching, payments, and more, Housecall Pro enables Pros to save time, grow profitably, and provide best-in-class service.

Housecall Pro’s brand portfolio includes Business Coaching by Housecall Pro, a business coaching solution for home services businesses. Our brands are united by a singular mission to champion our Pros to success.

We support more than 40,000 businesses and have over 1,800 ambitious, mission-driven, genuinely fun-loving teammates across the globe. If you want to do work that impacts real people, supported by a team that will invest in you every step of the way, we’d love to hear from you

Housecall Pro celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment.  We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. #LI-Remote

Location Dependent Information

This role is open to candidates and the expected salary range for this role is $216,000-$270,000. The specific salary for the successful candidate will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible to participate in Housecall Pro’s equity plan and the following benefits: health care insurance (medical, dental, vision, disability), employee assistance program, 401(K), flexible time off, paid parental leave, tech reimbursement, and other company benefits. Housecall Pro is growing fast and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth.

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