Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

2 days ago

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

Although this job is listed in New Jersey, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

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🏄 California – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $170.8k - $259.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Thumbtack

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B2C • Marketplace • Home Services

Thumbtack is a platform that connects people with local professionals offering various services such as home improvement, repair, and cleaning. Users can search for specific services like house cleaning, handyman work, electrical and wiring repair, and more, getting access to trusted professionals with reviews and cost estimates. The platform is designed to make finding, hiring, and working with professionals simple and efficient, with the convenience of managing everything from one app. It serves millions of people across the U. S. , providing a wide range of services including landscaping, event planning, and more.

1001 - 5000 employees

👥 B2C

🏪 Marketplace

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services that provide core application capabilities (e.g., identity, media, delivery/communication). • Develop and maintain reusable libraries and frameworks for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication. • Partner with product and platform teams to design APIs and distributed systems patterns that are reliable, efficient, and easy to integrate. • Anticipate scaling challenges through capacity planning and proactive engineering. • Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, ensuring services meet defined SLAs and addressing production issues.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles, with exposure to high-scale production environments. • Proficiency in a backend language such as but not limited to Go, Python, or PHP to build highly available APIs and distributed systems. • Strong knowledge of AWS and Linux. • Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting services that handle critical user-facing traffic. • Solid understanding of databases, caching, and messaging systems (e.g., DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, or equivalents). • Proven ability to collaborate across teams, balancing product velocity with long-term service health. • Experience working on platforms that create leveraged software for the entire engineering organization to use and build on top of.