Staff Software Engineer - Project Domain Team

Taskrabbit • San Francisco, CA

11h • $150,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Project Domain Team is architecting the future of Taskrabbit’s service engine. Our mission is to build a scalable, event-driven ecosystem that captures client needs with more precision than ever before. This domain focuses on decoupling Demand from Supply and dismantling legacy constraints, empowering the platform to handle our customers' complex needs.
As a Staff Engineer on this team, you won’t just be maintaining a domain system, you will be building the foundation that unlocks high-value revenue streams and enables Taskrabbit to expand into entirely new categories. You will play a pivotal role in creating a better everyday life for our users by making complex home services feel seamless.
Join us in creating a better everyday life for everyday people.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a primary focus on building and scaling complex backend systems.
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and the NestJS framework, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, production-grade features at scale.
• Extensive experience building and consuming API-driven applications (e.g., RESTful services) and a strong understanding of microservice architectures.
• A solid foundation in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and the ability to apply them to solve complex business logic challenges.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms to build decoupled, resilient systems.
• A strong commitment to code quality, comprehensive documentation, and a mindset geared toward operational excellence and system reliability.

Nice To Haves

• Experienced in Ruby on Rails with a proven ability to navigate and interpret complex legacy codebases.
• Expertise in database technologies such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, with the ability to design efficient schemas and write highly optimized queries.
• Experience operating in a distributed systems environment and a solid conceptual understanding of event-driven architecture (e.g., using message queues or streams).
• Experience working with background processing systems like Redis or Sidekiq.
• Experience building and supporting containerized applications deployed into Kubernetes infrastructures.
• Excellent communication and collaborative skills for working with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing & Driving the implementation of complex, high-volume backend solutions, focusing on core demand flow and event-driven architectures.
• Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap by proposing and executing platform improvements that dismantle legacy constraints and increase scalability.
• Mentor and collaborate with junior engineers, guiding them through complex design decisions, best practices, and effective goal decomposition.
• Establish and document best-in-class coding patterns and domain standards, ensuring they are accessible and actionable across the team.
• Maintain a culture of excellence through thorough code reviews and by troubleshooting complex performance, testing, and deployment issues in a high-traffic production environment.
• Partner effectively with Product, Design, and other domain teams to ensure cohesive feature delivery and a seamless user experience.

Benefits

• Taskrabbit is a Hybrid Company. We value flexibility and choice but also stay committed to regular in-person connection.
• The People. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams -- people you can be proud to work with!
• The Diverse Culture. We believe that we make better decisions when our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Women make up half of our leadership team and our diversity representation is above that of the tech industry average.
• The Perks. Taskrabbit offers our employees with employer-paid health insurance and a 401k match with immediate vesting for our US based employees. We offer all of our global employees generous and flexible time off with 2 company-wide closure weeks, Taskrabbit product stipends, wellness + productivity + education stipends, IKEA discounts, reproductive health support, and more. Benefits vary by country of employment.

What This Job Offers

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