3 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Take early People products to production and grow them into standalone products, plugins, and everyday tools.
- Redesign workflows across Workday, Ashby, and other systems from approved headcount through onboarding.
- Build APIs and MCP connectors that allow AI tools to safely access context and complete workflows.
- Design permissioning for confidential People data, including identity, authorization, model access, retention, approvals, and auditing.
- Partner on instrumentation and AI evaluations to measure quality, enforce boundaries, and improve products.
- Create reusable building blocks for People team members to build simpler tools safely.
- Own work across React, TypeScript, service code, and data models while shaping technical direction with business partners.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including owning systems end to end from ambiguous problem through production.
- Strong full-stack skills with React and TypeScript plus solid backend engineering experience.
- Experience with or ability to learn Go, PHP, and Python.
- Working knowledge of relational and non-relational data stores such as Postgres and DynamoDB.
- Sound judgment regarding authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, auditability, and privacy-aware design.
- Experience building internal tools or business systems and integrating SaaS platforms through their APIs.
- Strong product judgment, including deciding what to build and what to cut.
- Ability to work autonomously as the primary engineer for a product area and raise the technical bar for colleagues.
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About Thumbtack
Thumbtack builds a marketplace and app that connects U.S. homeowners with service professionals for repairs, maintenance, and home improvements. Pros pay for leads and bookings generated on the platform, and can use built-in tools for scheduling, messaging, and payments. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, it features a network of about 300,000 local businesses and has supported over 11 million projects nationwide.