Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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

Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed!.

This role will be fully remote through August 2025 with the expectation that employees will begin working Hybrid 2 days per week in our dedicated office space in either San Francisco or New York City starting in September of 2025. 

About the Role:

The Developer Excellence (DevEx) team at TaskRabbit is dedicated to empowering our developers by building tools, services, and foundational architecture that enhance their efficiency, productivity, and ability to ship high-quality code rapidly. Our team governs, architects, and develops solutions for writing, testing, and debugging code, as well as owning many core aspects of platform architecture. We thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment where shipping new code daily is part of our DNA.

As a Backend Engineer on the DevEx team, you will play a key role in enabling the efficiency of domain owners by establishing robust tools and TTPs (Techniques, Tactics, and Protocols). We serve as coaches, consultants, and supporters for every domain team, contributing to their initial domain inception, setting clear expectations for success, and fostering consistency in engineering practices. Through these efforts, we help teams modernize the platform and achieve engineering excellence. Your decisions will significantly impact the tools, patterns, and conventions that define engineering practices at TaskRabbit.

Join us in creating a better everyday life for everyday people.

You will be:

• Designing and driving impactful changes that boost the productivity of engineers across the organization.
• Mentoring and collaborating with junior engineers, guiding them through design decisions, code implementation, and breaking down goals into actionable steps.
• Publishing and promoting Techniques, Tactics, and Protocols (TTPs) that support platform modernization and drive engineering excellence.
• Innovating and contributing to the technical roadmap, ensuring continuous improvements, enhancements, and updates.
• Participating in code reviews, offering constructive feedback and learning from others’ approaches.
• Documenting best practices and coding patterns, ensuring they are accessible and actionable for the team.
• Collaborating across teams to promote consistency and alignment in engineering practices.
• Improving developer workflows and platform reliability by identifying pain points and delivering creative, impactful solutions.

You should have:

• Overall, 5+ years of experience in software development. 
• Deep Experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Proficiency in modern web technologies such as Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React is highly desirable for this role.
• Experience in building API-driven applications or endpoints.
• Experience in MySQL, Redis, and/or ElasticSearch.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetess, including designing, deploying, and managing applications, troubleshooting complex issues, optimizing application performance, and contributing to developer-centric tooling built on Kubernetes.
• Experience in building developer platforms, defining the strategy, and providing technical direction to the group to get those executed.
• Strong design and architecture skills
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
• Passion for improving the developer experience and mentorship.
• An interest in thinking about how to break problems down into smaller iterative steps.

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