Senior Software Engineer
Builds and leads backend systems for Taskrabbit’s tasker onboarding, eligibility, and marketplace matching experiences. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Ruby on Rails and Sorbet expertise, and experience with TypeScript contracts, Kafka, SQL, and production observability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for Tasker & Supply, including onboarding, category eligibility, geography, and marketplace matching.
- Drive technical strategy, address technical debt, and evolve engine boundaries, gateway contracts, and data models.
- Lead complex, cross-team initiatives involving marketplace liquidity and supply-demand matching.
- Translate ambiguous, high-stakes business goals into technical strategies, designs, and experiments.
- Improve reliability and observability for onboarding, matching, and supply-side systems using Datadog and Kafka.
- Own production debugging and drive systemic fixes.
- Champion testing and AI-driven development practices.
- Mentor engineers and create useful technical documentation.
- Lead adoption of Spec-Driven Development with AI tools.
- Help move service integrations toward strongly typed TypeScript contracts.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading complex work and influencing multiple teams.
- Strong experience with Ruby on Rails and typed Ruby using Sorbet.
- Working knowledge of TypeScript, especially contract-driven type generation.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills with MySQL.
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous, event-driven systems such as Kafka.
- Experience with service or engine-boundary architecture.
- Experience building and owning observability and alerting for critical systems.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence without authority.
- Demonstrated ownership of systems affecting marketplace supply and tasker trust.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Spec-Driven Development.
- Hands-on experience with AI tools.
- Experience replatforming legacy monolith code into cleanly bounded engines.
- Experience moving a typed backend toward TypeScript-bound contracts.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base pay range: $130,000–$180,000.
- Total compensation includes base pay, bonus, benefits, and perks.
- Employer-paid health insurance and a 401(k) match with immediate vesting for US-based employees.
- Flexible paid time off and two company-wide closure weeks.
- Product, wellness, productivity, and education stipends.
- IKEA discounts and reproductive health support.
- Benefits vary by country of employment.
Skills
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sorbet, TypeScript, SQL, MySQL, Kafka, Datadog, Data Modeling, Event-Driven Systems, Observability, AI Tools
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