Thumbtack

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. 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. About the Machine Learning Infrastructure Team At Thumbtack, our challenges span a wide range of areas, including search, recommendations, matchmaking, pricing, safety, content generation, fraud detection, and more. The ML Infrastructure team is responsible for centralizing, standardizing and evolving AI/ML infrastructure that enables these experiences. We empower product engineering teams by providing scalable, high-performance systems that drive AI innovation at scale. To read more about some of the engineering challenges at Thumbtack, visit our engineering blog . Challenge As a Software Engineer on the ML Infrastructure team, you will work closely with product and platform engineering teams to build and evolve core AI platform capabilities. You will help design and improve systems that allow teams to develop, run, and scale GenAI-powered applications in production. Your work will directly support AI-driven experiences used by millions of customers and pros across the Thumbtack ecosystem. What you'll do Build and evolve core AI platform capabilities that enable teams to develop, run, and scale GenAI-powered applications across Thumbtack. Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of scalable tools and infrastructure to support the efforts of our applied scientists, including traditional ML model training and serving systems, feature and data workflows, CI/CD, orchestration, deployment, and evaluation tooling. Work hands on across the stack, from backend services and execution infrastructure to integrations with AI models and tooling. Partner with senior engineers to evaluate next-generation AI infrastructure frameworks and tools that help product teams harness advances in AI. Drive projects to completion with a strong focus on business impact and measurable outcomes. Solve complex technical problems and stay up to date with advances in this rapidly evolving space. In order to be successful, you must bring 1 to 3 years of professional software engineering experience. Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Proficiency in at least one major programming language, and the ability to work across multiple languages. Our primary stack includes Go and Python. Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases such as Postgres or DynamoDB. Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools in day-to-day workflows and validate, critique, and refine AI-generated output Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with a certain level of ambiguity, especially when learning and picking up new technologies when projects require it. You operate with a bias to action, quickly learning what is needed and taking decisive steps to move work forward in ambiguous, fast-paced environments. Expected Salary Range For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia, the expected salary range for the role is currently $123,300 - $159,500. 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. Note: Thumbtack uses AI tools to support our resume screening process. However, our Recruiting team’s expertise and judgment guide hiring decisions. 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. 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: recruitingops@thumbtack.com . For information about how Thumbtack collects, uses, and shares personal information about job applicants, please see our Job Applicant Privacy Policy . We put as much craftsmansh

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. 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. About the Developer Experience Team The Developer Experience (DevEx) team makes Thumbtack's ~250 engineers more productive. We own the AI-powered developer workflows, cloud development environments, and internal developer platform the whole engineering org builds on. We're small and senior: a four-person team in Productivity Engineering, alongside Mobile Infra, Frontend Infrastructure, and Design Systems Engineering. We partner closely with engineers across the company to find their pain points and ship solutions. You can read more about our engineering culture on the Thumbtack Engineering Blog . The challenge We're building the infrastructure for an AI-native engineering organization, and every stream here is active work today: agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, backed by a library of skills that encode Thumbtack-specific knowledge; a catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that make our internal tools AI-accessible; and cloud development environments (CDEs) built for humans and agents alike. Alongside these, we're modernizing the Web and CLI tooling layers engineers reach for every day. A single improvement we ship can move dozens of teams forward. What you’ll do Build the platforms behind agentic developer workflows: roll out the tools the org builds on (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and ship the skills, plugins, and MCP servers that run across them. Design and build the product surfaces engineers and AI agents reach for daily: self-service workflows in our Backstage developer portal, our developer CLI, IDE integrations, and the framework engineers use to build and deploy their own agents. Own and evolve our Cloud Development Environment (CDE) platform for both human developers and AI agents. Improve the build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and observability the whole org depends on. Prototype and evaluate new AI developer tools as they land, and decide what to adopt, configure, and scale across the engineering org. In order to be successful, you must bring Demonstrated experience building developer infrastructure, DevEx, or platform tools that other engineers depend on, from CDE rollouts and internal CLIs to MCP servers and build/CI at 100+ engineer scale. Strong systems thinking: you reason about build pipelines, CI/CD, dev environments, and test infrastructure as interconnected systems, not isolated tools. A UX mindset applied to engineering systems: you think in personas, journeys, and end-to-end workflows, and design for the people and agents who use what you build. Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and considered opinions about their limits, where they help, and how to scale their use. Fluency in the languages our tooling is built in: Go and Python for CLIs, services, MCP servers, and Slackbots, plus TypeScript and React for the web UIs. 6+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including cross-team projects with measurable impact on engineering productivity. Expected salary ranges 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 $210,800.00 - $272,800.00. 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 $189,600.00 - $245,300.00. For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $179,400.00 - $232,100.00. 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. 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. 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