www.buildout.com. - (Senior) Software Engineer

• Ruby/Rails: We're a Ruby shop at Buildout, so deep knowledge of Rails will help you get up and running quickly. Our app uses all of the standard Rails goodness you know and love, as well as additional tools for design, business logic, and background jobs. If you like to learn new skills, you're going to fit in really well. • JavaScript/React: Our front-end is built on React for all new work, alongside a mature codebase with legacy JavaScript we're actively modernizing. We're looking for people with a strong JavaScript foundation who want to keep finding and working with the best new tools. • Testing: Is testing a natural part of your process? If so, you'll be appreciated here. We're investing in our test suite (RSpec and Jest, with growing Playwright end-to-end coverage) and providing ample team resources to make sure that everything we create is tested and rock-solid. • Other web tech: We use git for source control, Slim for our view templates, lightly customized Bootstrap for our CSS, MySQL, and AWS. If you're really passionate about some new technology, we'd love to hear about it. • AI-NATIVE DEVELOPMENT AT BUILDOUT • Engineering at Buildout is AI-accelerated by default. Claude Code is our primary development agent with Claude and Cubic reviewing every PR. We expect AI to be embedded across your implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation work as repeatable workflows, not occasional autocomplete. We look for: • Delegation: You know what to hand to an agent, what demands your own hands, and when AI is the wrong tool entirely. • Description: You can frame a problem with enough context and constraint that the first output is useful, and you iterate rather than accept. • Discernment: You catch subtly wrong code, missing edge cases, and security issues in AI output. • Diligence: You own everything you ship. You can delegate the work, but not the accountability. • Our technical interview reflects this: you'll use AI tooling on a realistic problem, and we're watching how you prompt, validate, and push back. Tool logos don't matter; if you've been deep in Cursor or Copilot, you'll pick up Claude Code quickly. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • 90 days: You're shipping production PRs within your first few weeks, with Claude Code embedded in your daily workflow, and you've delivered your first feature work under our milestone framework. • 6 months: You own feature-level work end to end and you're contributing meaningfully to our automated test coverage. • 12 months: You're trusted to scope and estimate large projects, and other engineers learn from your AI-assisted workflows and code reviews. • Location: This is a fully remote role open across most of the US.