Platform Engineer

Come join one of the best places to work in Denver! At Homebot, we believe that every team member has an important role to play in bringing our mission statement to life. How do we do this? By keeping a clear focus on culture and engagement, and creating an environment where people are valued! We’re looking for enthusiastic innovators to join us!

We connect people to make informed homeownership decisions together. Homebot is a Homeownership Intent Platform that surfaces actionable data first so our customers can capture the client before the competition. Homebot drives repeat and referral business to our customers through our personalized financial dashboards.

As a Platform Engineer, you'll architect and maintain our cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and security systems while ensuring system reliability through SRE practices and driving initiatives to improve developer productivity across our engineering organization. In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable solutions for AWS infrastructure, establish SLOs and observability standards, create automated workflows that empower developers to ship code faster, and build resilient systems that balance innovation with operational stability.

If this opportunity gets you pumped - perfect! Apply below and we look forward to speaking with you very soon!

This is a full-time position based in our Denver, CO office. (We have a hybrid work model in place that allows employees to split their time between working in-office and from home a few days a week.)

We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis.

Compensation: We are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including skills, qualifications and professional experience, which can cause your compensation to vary. This role has an annual targeted base salary range of $145,000 - $180,000, plus an annual 10% performance bonus target.

For additional details on our total benefits package, please review the section “Why Homebot?” at the end of this job description.

The impact you’ll make by joining us: 

Impact Within First 3 Months:

• Integrate with our hybrid workforce and develop deep understanding of our existing infrastructure, deployment workflows, and developer pain points
• Design and begin implementing new internal tools to streamline developer workflows, focusing on areas like:
  • Local development environment automation
  • Deploy preview environments
  • Internal CLI tools for common developer tasks
  • Service dependency visualization and management
  • Web based deployment tooling
• Collaborate with existing DevOps team to understand current tooling gaps and opportunities for automation
• Contribute to existing infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines while identifying areas for programmatic improvements
• Participate in on-call rotation to develop systems knowledge

Impact Within 6-12 Months:

• Lead development of internal developer portals and self-service platforms
• Create and maintain service templates and bootstrapping tools
• Build automated testing and validation tools for infrastructure changes
• Develop internal APIs and services to bridge gaps between development and operations
• Design and implement metrics collection systems for developer productivity and system health
• Architect solutions for cross-cutting platform concerns like logging, monitoring, and authentication

Who You’ll Collaborate With:

• Report to Engineering Manager
• Close collaboration with DevOps and Security teams
• Regular interaction with product engineering teams to understand needs

What You Bring: 

• Strong software engineering background with 5+ years of experience building production applications
• Expertise in Go, Python, Ruby, or similar languages used for backend/systems development
• Experience building internal developer tools, CLI applications, Web applications, developer platforms
• Working knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CDK)
• Understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, and modern deployment patterns
• Experience with CI/CD systems and automation
• Solid foundation in API design and service architecture

Bonus Points: 

• Experience with observability systems (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry)
• Background in site reliability engineering or DevOps
• Contributions to open-source developer tools
• Experience with service mesh technologies
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements

Complementary Skills / Competencies: 

• Experience with cloud infrastructure security and / or AppSec
  • Vulnerability management & compliance assurance
  • Secure access control management
  • Threat modeling
• Experience building out processes, programs & frameworks used by an engineering community
• Experience working in a SaaS web product and / or tech startup environment
• Experience in established SRE / DevSecOps environments
• Experience in FinTech or Real Estate Tech
• Real Estate Industry Knowledge

Characteristics of a Homebot Engineer:

• A positive, solution-oriented thinker who takes initiative and adds value
• A fast learner and excited to help where needed
• A mentor to peers and likes to help others grow
• A pragmatist who places a high value on code quality
• A strong understanding of the value tests provide to a codebase

About Homebot Engineering:

Building amazing products begins with great people. We are a team that believes in what we do and care for each other. Our processes are a reflection of that. We have agile planning and development processes. We craft our code with care - leaning on clean code and clean architecture, always keeping in mind how a new engineer would understand it. Testing is important to us to better document and create confidence in deliveries. We have initiatives like our quarterly HIP sprints that enable engineers to drive efforts around hardening our applications or innovation through experimentation. 

Culture and Values Mission

Homebot values and is enriched by a variety of perspectives. We believe that everyone comes from a diverse set of backgrounds and each member brings different skills to the group. With that, we’re committed to ensuring equity within as many aspects of our organization as we can. 

Homebot is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we encourage all applicants to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation including transgender status, national origin/ancestry, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, marital status, familial status or veteran status. We also encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description :)

Who We Strive To Be as Homebotters:

• We are Humbly Hungry
• We are Courageously Authentic
• We Challenge Limiting Beliefs
• We Keep our Eye on the Ball, Hand in the Dirt
• We win, lose and grow as a team, together!

Read about how we rolled out these values to the organization!

Why Homebot?

We believe in a collaborative, fun work environment. And when we say we have an awesome culture, we mean it. The team members, aka Homebotters, are not only passionate about our product, but also about how they interact with each other. We push ourselves every day to be better, challenge each other to continuously grow, and to have fun doing it. We are professional when we need to be and goofy when it’s time to celebrate a win. We realize we might be a little biased so we encourage you to check out our Glassdoor reviews and visit BuiltinColorado’s Best Places to Work list (#57), 50 Best Startups to Work For in Colorado (#5), and 50 Best U.S. Startup Companies (#40) for 2025!

With the mortgage and tech industries being highly male-dominated, we're proud to be a tech company in the mortgage space with ~40% female employees across the organization.

Want to learn more about Homebot, check us out on BuiltInCO!

We appreciate and value what our team members do every day, so we offer some amazing benefits to reward them:

Perks/Benefits:

• Medical (Aetna) / Dental (Aetna) / Vision (VSP)
  • Homebot covers 99% for the employee and 70% for dependents *For 2 PPO plans
• 401(k) match
  • Homebot matches 100% on the first 3% and an additional 50% on the next 2% (Homebotter contributes 5% and receives 4% from Homebot!)
• Pet insurance
• Legal insurance
• Flexible Vacation Policy - we believe in taking care of yourself & rewarding team members so we offer a flexible time off policy!
• 6 days of Sick/Mental Health time
• Paid Parental Leave - 12 Weeks!
• Access to Wellhub (previously known as Gympass)
• Hybrid Working Model - Blend Work From Home and In-Office Days
• Budget for Home Office Setup
• Denver EcoPass for light rail and bus system
• Office location in downtown Denver (modern, spacious 4-story with top floor deck ⛰)
• Weekly catered lunches in-office on Thursdays
• Nitro cold brew, french press, and snacks (vegan, gluten-free and food allergy safe options available)
• Stocked beer/wine fridge
• Fun quarterly events like Rockies games, holiday parties, etc.
• Awesome culture! Awesome coworkers! (seriously, have you seen Glassdoor?)
• We give back to the community (Habitat for Humanity, Metro Caring, Giving Tree)
• Open work environment with sit/stand desks
• Financial Wellness Program
• Free Employee Assistance Program & Mental Health Coaches
• Educational Assistance Program
• Annual Training Budget for Professional Development