Senior Software Engineer

Taskrabbit•San Francisco, CA

11h•$180,000 - $192,075•Hybrid

About The Position

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Post-Booking team, someone who doesn't just build, but raises the quality bar across our entire ecosystem. You'll be 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.

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.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.