Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation Platform
Taskrabbit11 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, integration, and adoption of the company-wide experimentation platform.
- Design, build, and maintain robust, high-performance TypeScript APIs and foundational services.
- Integrate shared capabilities with Ruby on Rails backend services and existing application infrastructure.
- Drive improvements to platform performance, reliability, developer experience, and scalable architecture.
- Mentor engineers on feature experimentation, API design, and scalable architecture.
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to establish a unified data-driven experimentation strategy.
- Advise senior leadership on experimentation architecture, platform capabilities, and strategic initiatives.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing modern APIs.
- Hands-on experience with an experimentation and feature-flagging platform such as Optimizely, Growthbook, Statsig, or similar.
- Professional experience with AI-led agentic software development using tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
- Experience building and maintaining TypeScript-based APIs and services.
- Strong technical design and architecture skills focused on scalable shared capabilities.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments.
- Experience mentoring engineers and breaking complex platform initiatives into high-impact iterations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ruby on Rails experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and data streaming mechanisms such as Kafka is a plus.
- Experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience with relational and key-value datastores such as MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch is a plus.
- Familiarity with Backend-for-Frontend design patterns is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid role requiring two days per week in the San Francisco hub every Tuesday and Wednesday.
- Base pay range is $150,000-$200,000, excluding bonus and other total compensation.
- Employer-paid health insurance and a 401k match with immediate vesting for US-based employees.
- Generous and flexible time off, including two company-wide closure weeks.
- Taskrabbit product stipends, wellness, productivity, and education stipends, IKEA discounts, reproductive health support, and additional perks.
- Benefits vary by country of employment.
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About Taskrabbit
Taskrabbit builds a two-sided marketplace and mobile app that connects consumers with local Taskers for home services such as furniture assembly, moving help, and handyman work. The company generates revenue through service fees on bookings and partnerships, and was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco. Taskrabbit operates across North America and Europe and has been a subsidiary of IKEA since its 2017 acquisition.