Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Hire team

The Hire team is working on building a next generation bookings platform for our pros and customers. We’re focused on taking ambitious swings that are a departure from our current experience, positioning us to drive differentiated value for customers and pros and ensure we are helping them get more jobs done. Our team works across the Thumbtack experience with a special focus on our in-app messenger, pro toolings, and lead/booking management. We are a fullstack team, comprised of both backend and frontend engineers, and work with numerous exciting technologies including integrating GenAI into our product surface areas. As an engineer on the Hire team you will be building out new tools to help customers get ready to book, enable customers and pros to effectively communicate, and help pros get the job done – all in service of creating an exciting, net-new experience for our users. We’re looking for engineers excited to embark on this adventure as we work towards elevating the pro, customer, and booking experience to new heights.

Challenge

The challenges on Hire range from technical explorations, such as the best ways to integrate GenAI into the optimal booking experience, to product questions on how to prove out and ultimately scale said experience. As such, you’ll have a diversity of challenges to immerse yourself in. We are constantly looking for new ways to help customers have a seamless booking experience, as well as empower pros to better serve their customers and get jobs done with minimal extra work. Our challenge is making this happen in an effective, efficient, and scalable way that best suits our users’ needs.

Responsibilities 

• Drive engineering projects to completion, with a tenacious focus on the business impact of those projects. Skilled at prioritizing tasks to deliver on goals with a sense of urgency.
• Execute new ideas quickly and effectively on the backend while also being a resource to other teams and engineers.
• Willing, when necessary, to solve tough technical problems at any level of the stack, and be persistent in getting to the solution.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams such as Product and Design to plan and execute on engineering projects
• Work on large projects and lead small teams of engineers

What you’ll need

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

• Minimum of 5+ years of industry experience in engineering
• Fluent in at least one major programming language and able to quickly adopt the languages in our stack. In our stack we mainly use Go, Php, and Python
• Solid experience building software on top of relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
• Write high quality, maintainable, testable code, and you enjoy doing it
• Curious, data-driven, and a critical problem solver. Break down complex problems rigorously and understand the tradeoffs necessary to deliver great, impactful products

Bonus points if you have

• Experience using AWS and/or GCP and its suite of technologies such as DynamoDB
• Familiarity with LLM, GenAI, and implementing such systems in-product
• Familiarity with building APIs for full fledged products

Thumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, Canada or the Philippines.* Learn more about our virtual-first working model here.

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