Remote Senior Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Taskrabbit, a remote-first company, as a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead complex projects, mentor the team, and influence technical decisions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of professional experience with JavaScript and Typescript applications
• An advocate of professional engineering best practices like CI/CD, automated testing, and monitoring
• Experience building REST APIs
• Experience with the Kafka event streaming

Responsibilities

• Delivering large projects - Including scoping, planning, breaking down into discrete tasks, execution with the team, successful release, and long term monitoring
• Breaking down a monolith - Moving from a monolithic JavaScript web application in Typescript services while advancing business interests
• Technical Design  - Mentor on the team for technical design decisions. Able to balance business needs against engineering excellence
• Product Partner - Being a thought partner for our product team in the design and implementation of new features