Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

Thumbtack
Ontario
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 232,900 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Ownership","Transparency","Balancing priorities"]

Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services that power core application capabilities like identity, media, and delivery/communication. Create reusable Go-based libraries and frameworks for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication. Partner with product and platform teams to design reliable distributed systems and APIs, anticipate scaling needs, and participate in on-call to meet SLAs and resolve production issues.

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Thumbtack
Thumbtack
8 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services that power core application capabilities like identity, media, and delivery/communication. Create reusable Go-based libraries and frameworks for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication. Partner with product and platform teams to design reliable distributed systems and APIs, anticipate scaling needs, and participate in on-call to meet SLAs and resolve production issues.
Location: Ontario
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services for 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 and easy to integrate.
  • •Perform capacity planning and proactive engineering to anticipate scaling challenges.
  • •Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to ensure services meet defined SLAs and address production issues.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 232,900 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles in high-scale production environments.
  • •Proficiency in a backend language such as Go, Python, or PHP to build highly available APIs and distributed systems.
  • •Strong knowledge of AWS and Linux.
  • •Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting services handling critical user-facing traffic.
  • •Solid understanding of databases, caching, and messaging systems (e.g., DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, Kafka).
Experience:5+ years
Skills:CollaborationOwnershipTransparencyBalancing priorities
Tech Stack:GoPythonPHPAWSLinuxDynamoDBPostgresRedisKafka

Company Brief

Thumbtack
Provides an online marketplace connecting local service professionals (home improvement, events, lessons, and more) with customers seeking quotes, reviews, and booking tools to hire vetted contractors and providers.
Industry: Online Marketplaces
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2008
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