Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.
The Developer Experience (DX) team at Thumbtack is focused on making engineering fast, reliable, and delightful. We tackle hard problems collaboratively, grounded in strong values of ownership and transparency. As a DX team member, you’ll partner closely with engineers company-wide to identify pain points, design pragmatic solutions, and drive impactful improvements that elevate our entire engineering organization.
The ChallengeThis is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their career to work closely with experienced engineers, learn best practices, and make a meaningful impact on how our developers work every day.
You’ll help maintain and improve the infrastructure that supports our entire engineering organization. This includes writing code, debugging tricky systems problems, and helping drive incremental improvements to our tools and processes. We believe in learning by doing, and you’ll have the support of a collaborative team that values mentorship and continuous growth.
We’re tackling some of the most important and complex challenges in modern software development. We’re introducing GenAI tooling into a hybrid local/cloud development environment — balancing innovation with reliability and performance. We’re streamlining the designer–developer feedback loop to enable rapid prototyping and faster iteration. And we’re building the foundations for measuring developer productivity across diverse workflows, helping Thumbtack make smarter, faster engineering investments.
What you'll do- 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
- 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
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Bonus: Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins), build systems (e.g., Bazel, Gradle), or containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- 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 $169,600 - $219,500.
- 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 $152,700 - $197,600.
- For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $144,200 - $186,600.
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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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. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: [email protected].
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