Taskrabbit will never use text or chat applications to conduct interviews. We have a thoughtful and interactive interview process that includes an initial recruiter phone screen and several video-based interviews with our hiring teams. Communications will always be conducted by taskrabbit.com domain names.

About Taskrabbit:

Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more.

At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love.

Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.

• Taskrabbit is a remote-first company with employees distributed across the US and EU
• 5-time Best Places to Work in 2022 by BuiltIn. Including Best Companies in SF, Best Mid-Sized Companies, and Best Benefits
• DataBird journal’s “Best Places” Best Companies for Diversity, #1 2019 and 2020
• DataBird journal’s “Best Places” Best Companies for Women, #4 2019 and #1 2020

About the Job:

At a point of major inflection and scale, Taskrabbit is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and implement a partner API platform that enables Taskrabbit to integrate with other businesses so they can offer Taskrabbit services to their customers. Partnerships are a critical growth engine for Taskrabbit and one of our top strategic priorities. Taskrabbit is integrated with IKEA, our parent company, and we are building our partnerships platform to unlock more business opportunities through new partnerships. We seek a strong technical leader with experience building a robust and scalable platform to support current and future partners at scale. This Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for collaborating with peers in Engineering, Architecture, Data, Product, and other business leaders to build a partnerships platform to support and sustain hyper-growth for Taskrabbit. 

Join us in transforming lives one task at a time

You will be:

• Designing, building, and maintaining partner-facing solutions which follow our engineering principles:
• expose the ability to be measured and observed
• protect our customer, our business, and our partners and their data
• always do what the customer expects and upon failure, data is recoverable
• always available when and where the customer expects and which are healthy and current
• perform to, and exceed, customer expectations
• ddelight the customer
• Contributing to the growth and success of team members through code review, clear documentation, and mentorship
• Contributing to initiatives across the company to support the Partnerships program.
• Accelerating the Partner integration experience through developer tooling, SDKs, and documentation

You should have:

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, partner engineering, or similar roles
• Experience building developer platforms, helping define the strategy, and being collaborative with cross-functional teams
• Experience building API-driven applications and endpoints.
• Strong design and architecture skills.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, code reviews, design documentation).
• Proficiency with Ruby/Rails

• Experience with MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and similar technologies.

• A strong ability to reason about how to break problems down into smaller iterable steps.

You might be a fit if you have: 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Enjoy organizing and scoping high-priority projects and plans to keep us moving forward.
• Great attention to detail and quality.
• Love for collaborating with a tight-knit team and across the organization.

Bonus Points:

• Care deeply and are opinionated about partnership programs, API design patterns, or the developer experience
• Built a customer-facing API integration 
• Experience with business dashboards, monitoring, and observability

Compensation & Benefits: 

At Taskrabbit, our approach to compensation is designed to be competitive, transparent and equitable. Our total compensation consists of base pay + bonus +