Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Summary

Join Taskrabbit's Developer Excellence (DevEx) team as a Backend Engineer and empower developers by building robust tools and TTPs. You will play a key role in enabling the efficiency of domain owners, serving as a coach, consultant, and supporter for every domain team. Design and drive impactful changes that boost engineer productivity, mentor junior engineers, and publish TTPs to support platform modernization. Innovate and contribute to the technical roadmap, participate in code reviews, document best practices, and collaborate across teams. This fully remote role (through August 2025, transitioning to hybrid in September 2025) offers a competitive salary ($115,000-$160,000), benefits, and a chance to make a significant impact on engineering practices at Taskrabbit. Taskrabbit is a remote-first company with a commitment to diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive and collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Overall, 5+ years of experience in software development
• Deep Experience in Ruby on Rails
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in modern web technologies such as Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React is highly desirable for this role
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in helping organize and scope high-priority projects and plans to keep us moving forward
• Great attention to detail and quality
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• A desire to collaborate together with a tight-knit team

Benefits

• Employer-paid health insurance
• 401k match with immediate vesting for our US based employees
• Generous and flexible time off with 2 company-wide closure weeks
• Taskrabbit product stipends
• Wellness + productivity + education stipends
• IKEA discounts
• Reproductive health support