Software Engineer

Description:

Monetization is key to the growth of any business, and in this role you will focus on bringing Thumbtack’s Monetization Experience vision to life. The team is highly interdisciplinary, encompassing engineers with a variety of skill sets including frontend engineering, native mobile and backend engineering. As a Software Engineer, you’ll collaborate with other engineers in the team, product managers, and business stakeholders to help execute on a broad range of projects. This could include building new product features to improve the experience of our users, architecting software components to support a fast-growing user base to optimize our monetization experience and provide better control to professionals on our platform to profitably grow their businesses.

What You'll Do
 

• 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
• 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 Monetization Experience 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
   

In order to be successful, you must bring
 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of industry experience in software engineering
• 3+ years of industry experience 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
• You’re curious, you’re data-driven, you love to ask questions, and you think critically about problems