Thumbtack aims to enable marketplace growth through pricing based on supply and demand dynamics and professional willingness to pay. The team builds tools and solutions to monetize various product lines at Thumbtack and communicate them to the pros, leveraging marketplace data and developing analytical and statistical models to set prices and guidelines.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering, working on backend development
- Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
- 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.)
- You can break down complex problems rigorously and understand the tradeoffs necessary to deliver great, impactful products.
Responsibilities
- Drive engineering projects to completion, with a tenacious focus on the business impact of those projects.
- Solve tough technical problems and stay up-to-date with the latest advances in this constantly evolving problem space
- Collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists and product managers to identify and improve the Pricing and Budget systems on Thumbtack platform
- Help maintain the operational stability of Thumbtack’s marketplace and the underlying microservices, and help fix any bugs that may cause deterioration in performance or functionality
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- You’re curious, you’re data-driven, you love to ask questions, and you think critically about problems.
