Software Engineer - Demand Services Team

About Taskrabbit

Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-dos such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and more. We aim to transform lives one task at a time. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast‑paced, celebrating innovation, inclusion, and hard work. We work with partners like IKEA to create meaningful income opportunities for people worldwide.

We are not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.

The Demand Services Team is architecting the future of Taskrabbit’s service engine, focusing on decoupling demand from supply and dismantling legacy constraints to empower the platform for complex needs. As a Staff Engineer, you will design the foundation that unlocks high‑value revenue streams and enables expansion into new categories.

• Design and drive implementation of complex, high‑volume backend solutions, focusing on core demand flow and event‑driven architectures.
• Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap by proposing and executing platform improvements that dismantle legacy constraints and increase scalability.
• Mentor and collaborate with junior engineers, guiding them through complex design decisions, best practices, and effective goal decomposition.
• Establish and document best‑in‑class coding patterns and domain standards, ensuring they are accessible and actionable across the team.
• Maintain a culture of excellence through thorough code reviews and by troubleshooting complex performance, testing, and deployment issues in a high‑traffic production environment.
• Partner effectively with Product, Design, and other domain teams to ensure cohesive feature delivery and a seamless user experience.

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development, primarily building and scaling complex backend systems.
• Expert‑level proficiency in JavaScript, Type Script, and NestJS, with a proven track record of delivering production‑grade features at scale.
• Extensive experience building and consuming API‑driven applications (e.g., RESTful services) and a strong understanding of microservice architectures.
• Solid foundation in Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) principles and ability to apply them to solve complex business logic challenges.
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka or similar event‑streaming platforms to build decoupled, resilient systems.
• Strong commitment to code quality, comprehensive documentation, and an operational‑excellence mindset.
• Experienced in Ruby on Rails with the ability to navigate and interpret complex legacy codebases.
• Experience operating in a distributed systems environment and conceptual understanding of event‑driven architecture.
• Experience building and supporting containerized applications deployed into Kubernetes infrastructures.

Base pay range: $150,000 – $200,000. Total compensation includes base pay, bonus, benefits, and perks. Final offer will vary based on experience, qualifications, geography, and level.

• Hybrid work model with flexibility and regular in‑person connection.
• Supportive, talented, and diverse leadership and teams.
• Diversity representation above industry averages, with a strong commitment to equity.
• Employer‑paid health insurance and 401(k) match with immediate vesting for US employees; global employees receive generous time off, productivity stipends, IKEA discounts, reproductive health support, and more.

Taskrabbit is an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. Taskrabbit will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable law.

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