Airtasker

Senior Software Engineer

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2 months ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Deliver features through spec-driven, agentic workflows by writing specifications and acceptance criteria and directing and verifying implementation to production standards.
  • Design agent workflows with clear boundaries, escalation points, and human-in-the-loop responsibilities.
  • Curate repository maps, architecture summaries, decision logs, and reusable task templates to improve agent effectiveness.
  • Own delivery end to end by clarifying requirements, conducting technical research, engaging stakeholders, and removing blockers.
  • Lead projects of business significance and participate in company strategy and goals discussions.
  • Partner with Product, Data, and Design leaders on core product roadmap initiatives.
  • Help hire, mentor, and develop strong engineers.

Requirements

  • Fluency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code across exploration, implementation, refactoring, debugging, testing, and documentation.
  • Ability to decompose work into agent-executable units with clear constraints and acceptance criteria.
  • A root-cause approach to improving prompts, context, and plans when AI output is incorrect.
  • Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals with hands-on scalable architecture design experience.
  • Care for the product and commercial context in which the team operates.
  • Passion for teaching and for introducing useful technologies and practices to the team.
  • Preferred: experience designing multi-step or multi-agent systems, including orchestration and human/agent handoffs.
  • Preferred: experience instrumenting and evaluating AI workflows, including evaluations, regression checks, and cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.
  • Preferred: product engineering experience or experience with marketplaces and two-sided platforms.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working with flexibility to choose the environment that supports effective work.
  • Meeting-free Fridays and dedicated Airtime focus time.
  • Quarterly company-wide Recharge Days equivalent to four additional days of leave per year.
  • Employee Assistance Program with access to GPs, dieticians, counseling, and mental health specialists.
  • $200 Airpowerment Fund allowance for health and wellbeing.
  • $1,000 of Airtasker credits annually.
  • Annual compensation reviews based on industry data.
  • Tenure leave beginning at the third anniversary, increasing from three to five additional days per year.
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs through the DAREtasker committee.
  • Ability to exchange public holidays for holidays that matter to the employee.
  • Learning and development programs and budget allowances.
  • Annual 360 performance reviews.
  • One day of volunteer leave per year.
  • Peer-nominated and periodic employee awards.
  • Local and remote team events through the Vibe Committee.
  • One additional day of birthday leave during the employee's birthday week.

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About Airtasker

201-500 employees

Airtasker is one of Australia’s most impactful tech companies. Our mission is to empower people to realise the full value of their skills. Our marketplace creates jobs and earning opportunities for people all over Australia and internationally, leveraging skills that they might not have previously known could provide them an income. After listing on the ASX in 2021, we went global through launching new marketplaces in the US and UK. Here's a snapshot of where we are up to in numbers: - We have created over $2bn worth of job opportunities since we started - We generated $44.2M of revenue in FY23 - There were over 2,500,000 tasks posted on Airtasker in FY23 - We have over 149,000 active Taskers - 6,750,000 verified Airtasker user reviews as of 2023 At Airtasker, we have five values that drive our actions, thoughts and goals everyday: - Stay Open - People Matter - Fit for Purpose - When it’s On, it’s On - Own It At Airtasker we believe in culture add - that each person is different and has their own background, learnings and unique experiences that can add to the Airtasker cultural tapestry. We pride ourselves on our inclusive culture, and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Benefits include: - Competitive compensation packages - Quarterly recharge days - Agile and innovative ways of working - Flexible, hybrid workplace environment - Learning and development - Progressive parental leave policies - Access to wellbeing support - Airtasker credits - Regular connection and celebration events - Dog friendly office We are also proud to share that Airtasker is an official team partner of the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Formula One™ Team (VCARB). Come be a part of our journey and check out our live roles - https://www.airtasker.com/careers/

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