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About the Role
We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Post-Booking team, instrumental in shaping the consumer experience following the initial booking process. Your work will focus on building new features to improve the customer experience through high-performance Node.js services and AI-driven enhancements, as well as critical replatforming work to modernize our microservice infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for Post-Booking domains (backend, frontend web client etc) along with the engineering manager and architects - driving strategy, addressing tech debt, and evolving scalable system architecture, APIs, and data models.
- Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives.
- Translate ambiguous, high-stakes business goals into clear technical strategies, designs, and experiments.
- Serve as a Javascript subject-matter expert, champion high-quality testing and AI practices, mentor engineers, and produce durable technical documentation.
- Lead the adoption of Spec-Driven Development (SDD) leveraging advanced AI tools, ensuring engineers consistently turn well-defined specs into robust, scalable Node.js implementations and comprehensive test suites.
Requirements
- 4 years professional software engineering including a mix of frontend and backend experience, with demonstrated impact (leading complex domains, influencing multiple teams).
- Extensive professional experience with Node.js and microservice architecture; familiarity with Ruby on Rails is a plus.
- Strong SQL and data modeling for financial use cases (Postgres, Snowflake).
- Hands-on experience with async/event-driven systems (Kafka) and microservice architecture.
- Proven track record designing and owning observability/alerting for critical systems.
- Mastery in building, debugging, and scaling distributed systems.
- Excellent communication, ability to influence without authority, and a strong ownership mentality for systems handling money and trust.
- Experience with Spec Driven Development.
- Hands-on AI tools experience.
- Experience with rebuilding legacy software systems.
- Familiarity with microservice and event-driven architectures at scale.
Skills
- Node.js
- Microservice architecture
- Ruby on Rails
- SQL
- Data modeling
- Postgres
- Snowflake
- Async/event-driven systems
- Kafka
- Observability/alerting
- Distributed systems
- Javascript
- AI tools
- Spec-Driven Development
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 - $192,075
Benefits
- Employer-paid health insurance
- 401k match with immediate vesting
- Generous and flexible time off
- 2 company-wide closure weeks
- Taskrabbit product stipends
- Wellness + productivity + education stipends
- IKEA discounts
- Reproductive health support
About the Company
- Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more.
- At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love.
- Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.
- Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories.
- Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed!
Equal Opportunity
- An Active Commitment to Equity within our Company and Platform. We are an inclusive community where all who share our mission and values belong. Our diverse team represents the communities we serve, breaking down systemic barriers, and transforming lives- one action at a time.
- Taskrabbit is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. 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.
- Taskrabbit is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
- Taskrabbit will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.