Staff Software Engineer - Backend

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer - Backend to join Procore’s Engineering team. In this role, you’ll help revolutionize a historically underserved industry by building scalable SaaS solutions. Your primary goal is to translate fundamental customer needs into robust backend architectures and technological solutions that impact the way communities are built.

As a Staff Software Engineer - Backend, you’ll partner with infrastructure, platform, and product teams to design and build high-scale systems that serve millions of users. Use your deep experience in distributed systems, technical leadership, and strategic mindset to establish development standards and drive large technical initiatives. Join us to build software that shapes the physical world.

This position reports into the Software Engineering Manager and will be based in our Cairo, Egypt office. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.

What you’ll do:

• Establish technical standards for development teams and collaborate on cross-functional initiatives with infrastructure and platform teams.
• Build and maintain scalable solutions using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Java, hosted on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Mentor and develop fellow teammates by conducting code reviews, pairing, and providing technical guidance.
• Design and implement complex backend systems that balance immediate operational needs with long-term strategic goals.
• Enhance and maintain modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) systems (using CircleCI and ArgoCD) to support rapid deployment.
• Ensure system reliability and performance by overseeing testing, staging, deployment, and monitoring processes across the development lifecycle.
• Leverage a tech stack that includes Postgres, Typescript, and an evolving microservices architecture to solve complex problems.
• AI is central to how we work. You’ll be expected to master generative tools and agentic workflows, moving beyond just using AI to actively building the agentic future of construction.

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on fundamentals, Test Driven Development (TDD), and system design.
• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, Golang or Java is highly preferred.
• Proven experience working with software, platforms, and infrastructure at scale, managing thousands of hosts and millions of users.
• Expertise in building and maintaining modern Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery systems at scale.
• Experience working on Document Management systems is highly desirable.
• Experience leading large technical initiatives with the ability to course-correct and adapt as needed.
• Ability to understand tradeoffs between short-term and long-term goals to balance immediate needs with strategic initiatives.