Senior Full Stack Engineer, People Products

The role

You will build and scale internal People products and AI-enabled workflows. This includes designing permissioning models for sensitive data and redesigning workflows across systems like Workday and Ashby.

What you will do

• Take early People products to production and grow them into a suite of experiences.
• Redesign workflows across Workday, Ashby, and other systems.
• Build APIs and connectors, including MCP connectors, for AI tools.
• Design the permissioning model for confidential People data.
• Partner with People Products & Data on instrumentation and AI evaluations.
• Create reusable building blocks for People team members.
• Own software across the stack from React and TypeScript to service code and data models.
• Set technical direction with non-engineering partners.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including owning systems end to end from ambiguous problem to production.
• Strong full-stack skills: React and TypeScript on the frontend, and solid backend engineering.
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar).
• Sound judgment with sensitive data: authentication and authorization, least-privilege access, auditability, and privacy-aware design.
• Experience building internal tools or business systems and integrating with SaaS platforms through their APIs.
• Real product judgment.
• Comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy as the primary engineer on a product area.
• Track record of raising the technical bar for the people around you.

Nice to have

• Ability to pick up new languages like Go, PHP, and Python

About the company

Thumbtack is an app used to take care of and improve homes. The Business Applications team builds and operates the internal systems that keep Thumbtack running at scale.