Senior Native Engineer, Partnerships

Thumbtack

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About The Position

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes. Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

About the Partnerships Team
We’re a startup within a startup. We incubate new products and business models to make sure Thumbtack continues to be the most innovative marketplace for homeowners and professionals to get work done. Our team is self-contained and cross functional between engineering, product, design, analytics, growth and marketing. This structure allows us to move fast and experiment with new ideas rapidly. We want to test ideas that will drive net new, high intent Homeowners to Thumbtack with jobs to be done and we’ll also encourage the best in class Pros in the Homeservice space to build out their profiles and their businesses on our platform. We will do this by expanding where and how Thumbtack can create value by putting our experience on complementary sites/platforms, integrating into existing workflows, and leveraging third-party offerings to enhance Thumbtack engagement. We are also responsible for maintaining and growing existing lines of business that were previously created within this group which represent a significant percentage of overall revenue.

Requirements

• Fluency with either Android or iOS development.
• Deep hands-on expertise with the modern language and UI stack on at least one platform (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose on Android, or Swift + SwiftUI on iOS), with the judgment to choose the right approach for a given feature.
• 6+ years of industry software experience, with significant time building consumer-facing mobile features.
• Strong product sense - ability to translate product and design requirements into technical implementation, and to weigh in on UX tradeoffs, beyond just executing a spec.
• A track record of owning features through the full lifecycle: experimentation and A/B testing, metrics instrumentation, data-driven iteration, and post-launch support.
• Facility in navigating platform constraints: app store review, OS version support, device fragmentation.

Responsibilities

• Ship user-facing features end-to-end on mobile, from design handoff through release.
• Build net-new experiences and enhance existing workflows in both the customer and service professional facing Thumbtack applications.
• Work across both iOS and Android when needed, employing first class agentic tools and frontier models to accelerate delivery and make impact on platforms that aren't your primary.
• Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to scope, build, and iterate on features.

Benefits

• Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law.
• We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.
• Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: [email protected] .
• For information about how Thumbtack collects, uses, and shares personal information about job applicants, please see our Job Applicant Privacy Policy .
• We put as much craftsmanship into candidate safety as we do into the hiring experience itself. While scammers may try to impersonate our team, we’ll never ask you for money, banking info, or SSNs during hiring. Check out our blueprint on how to spot the fakes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed