Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

Thumbtack
Ontario
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Collaboration","Ownership","Transparency","Problem-solving"]

Build and maintain resilient backend services that power core Thumbtack capabilities such as identity, media, and delivery/communication. Develop reusable libraries and frameworks for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication, and partner with product and platform teams to design reliable APIs and distributed systems patterns. Tackle scaling and reliability through capacity planning and proactive engineering, and support production with on-call participation to meet SLAs.

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Thumbtack
Thumbtack
11 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Build and maintain resilient backend services that power core Thumbtack capabilities such as identity, media, and delivery/communication. Develop reusable libraries and frameworks for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication, and partner with product and platform teams to design reliable APIs and distributed systems patterns. Tackle scaling and reliability through capacity planning and proactive engineering, and support production with on-call participation to meet SLAs.
Location: Ontario
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services that provide core application capabilities such as identity, media, and 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 to meet SLAs and address production issues.

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 such as DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, or Kafka.
Experience:5+ yearsBackend engineeringSystems engineeringDistributed systemsCloud
Skills:CollaborationOwnershipTransparencyProblem-solving
Tech Stack:GoPythonPHPAWSLinuxDynamoDBPostgresRedisKafkaAPIsDistributed systems

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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