Senior Software Engineer, Marketplace

About the Marketplace team

The Marketplace Start team is a passionate and collaborative group focused on empowering customers to take action on their projects with confidence and ease, helping more customers start projects and get their jobs done. As a team, we will work on projects that support immediate hiring needs, build trust in Thumbtack and our pros, and also engage customers beyond their initial hiring needs. The team collaborates extensively with product, design, data, and applied science partners. As a backend engineer, you will also collaborate with mobile, frontend, and other backend engineers to develop features that directly impact customers on our platforms.

About the Role

We have technical problems ranging from building mobile experiences, optimizing performances, designing high scale backend systems, and embedding machine learning models and AI into the product . Many of the experiences that we build in our apps are to onboard, engage, and convert our users which requires consistent A/B tests in relation to their experiences. Our challenges are pretty open ended, and we move real fast!

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.
• Collaborate with applied scientists to connect and implement complex machine learning algorithms to our backend systems to support our growing customer base. 
• Build exciting new product experiences by partnering with mobile and frontend engineers to solve customer facing problems.
• 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.

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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industry experience working on backend development
• You’re fluent in at least one major programming language and would be able to switch between multiple languages. In our stack, we use Go, Scala & Python
• You have experience building software using databases (e.g. Postgres, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Familiarity with building APIs for full fledged products
• Experience with the integration and lifecycle management of machine learning models within backend infrastructures.

Bonus points if you have

• You’re familiar working with major cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• You have experience building and maintaining reliable, performant distributed systems.
• You’ve demonstrated your ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment

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.

For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $212,700.00 - $259,900.00.

For candidates living in Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states, the expected salary range for the role is currently $191,400.00 - $234,000.00.

For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $180,800.00 - $221,000.00. Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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