Thumbtack is looking to improve its engineering infrastructure, tools, and processes to make software development faster, more reliable, and more efficient for its engineers. This includes addressing challenges in modern software development, such as integrating GenAI tooling, streamlining designer-developer workflows, and measuring developer productivity.
Requirements
- Minimum of 2+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript, Java)
- Interest in infrastructure, tooling, developer experience, or DevOps practices
- Curiosity, initiative, and a willingness to learn new tools and systems
- Bonus: Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins), build systems (e.g., Bazel, Gradle), or containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tools that support software development workflows
- Improve build, test, and deployment systems to make them faster, more reliable, and easier to use
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to understand pain points and identify opportunities for automation or tooling improvements
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team planning
- Writing code
- Debugging tricky systems problems
- Helping drive incremental improvements to our tools and processes
Other
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- LI-Remote
- Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law.
- We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.
- Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.
