Hello, Future Homie!At Homebase, we are on a mission to empower small businesses to flourish. Our team is dynamic, innovative, and dedicated to making a meaningful impact. We prioritize empathy in our development process, act swiftly, and embrace bold initiatives that create substantial real-world results. Every member of our team is committed to elevating our standards, supporting one another, and celebrating our collective achievements.We’re not just developing an application; we’re cultivating unstoppable teams. So, what do you think? Are you ready to join us?Your Impact Begins HereWe are in search of a Staff Engineer (E5) to help shape the architectural future of Homebase’s Core Platform. This pivotal role will span our Identity & Notifications (IN) and Billing & Businesses (BB) teams—two essential domains that facilitate customer access, communication, and transactions within Homebase.As a senior technical leader, you will play a dual role as both a hands-on contributor and a mentor. Reporting directly to the Senior Manager of Core Platform, you will collaborate with engineering managers and individual contributors to design scalable services in line with our service-oriented architecture (SOA) and event-driven architecture (EDA) vision. Your leadership will guide engineers in adopting best practices while identifying opportunities to enhance reliability, performance, and developer velocity across our systems.This is a crucial position for a seasoned platform engineer who is passionate about enabling teams, refining architectures, and tackling complex system challenges that yield impactful results at scale.Act as the technical liaison between the Identity & Notifications and Billing & Businesses teams, ensuring architectural integrity and dependability.Lead the design and implementation of new patterns aligned with SOA and EDA.Mentor engineers from both teams, enhancing their design, debugging, and systems thinking capabilities.Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to clarify technical requirements, define project scopes, and sequence foundational tasks.Identify system bottlenecks, advocate for architectural enhancements, and implement practical solutions.Steer the technical direction of high-impact projects, particularly those introducing SOA/EDA patterns into our legacy Rails systems.Promote an AI-first development approach: utilize AI tools to enhance code quality, design exploration, and delivery speed.
Dec 11, 2025