Software Engineer, Marketplace

About the Marketplace Matching Team

The Marketplace Matching team is responsible for optimizing how we match customers to professionals within Thumbtack’s marketplace. Our challenges are deeply technical and span a wide range of domains from engineering challenges related to improving the search experience or enabling policy based re-ranking for search results to machine learning challenges related to ranking & search relevance. Examples of recent efforts include: improving search bar autocomplete suggestions using ElasticSearch, improving search infrastructure to enable cross team experimentation, optimizing ML systems for search ranking using neural networks, introducing a policy layer to re-rank search results to improve monetization & demand-supply inefficiencies. To read more about the problems that our team is taking on, visit our engineering blog.

Challenge

We’re looking for an experienced software engineer who can help improve the search foundations for Thumbtack’s marketplace. We’d love to bring onboard an engineer who has experience building & improving a modern search stack that can power business critical search experiences for millions of Thumbtack customers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists and product managers to identify and improve the search experience for millions of Thumbtack customers
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts and product managers to identify and improve the search foundation infrastructure for Thumbtack’s marketplace
• Drive projects to completion with a tenacious focus on the business impact of those projects
• Help maintain the operational stability of Thumbtack’s marketplace and the underlying microservices, and help fix any bugs that may cause deterioration in performance
• Solve tough technical problems and stay up-to-date with the latest advances in this constantly evolving problem space

What you’ll need

• 2+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• 1+ years of industry experience working on infrastructure or backend development.
• 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, data-driven, love to ask questions, and think critically about problems.
• You love delivering value to your users and your teammates through your work.

Bonus points if you have

• You’re familiar working with major cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• You have experience building and maintaining reliable, performant distributed systems.
• You’ve demonstrated your ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Thumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, Canada or the Philippines.* Learn more about our virtual-first working model here.

For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $165,000 - $205,000. 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.

For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $140,000- $180,000. 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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