Senior Full Stack Engineer, People Products

The role

You will build and scale People products, including AI-enabled tools and workflows, to support Thumbtack's People team. You will own the full stack from React and TypeScript to service code and data models.

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

Nice to have

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

About the company

Thumbtack is an app that helps people care for their homes through personalized guidance, AI tools, and a hiring experience. The company connects homeowners with a community of 300,000 local service businesses.