[Hiring] Senior Full Stack Engineer @Thumbtack

Role Description

Thumbtack’s People team is reimagining how employees and leaders experience People programs—and how the People team operates. Employees get support tailored to their circumstances, managers bring relevant evidence into feedback and team decisions, and People specialists spend less time coordinating processes across systems. You’ll help build what comes next:

• Advisors that bring People expertise and personal context together.
• Experiences that anticipate needs and help people act on insights.
• Connected workflows that complete work on someone’s behalf.

Making this possible means working with some of the company’s most sensitive information—performance, feedback, org structure, and hiring. You’ll own that engineering problem end to end, building on our identity-aware infrastructure as it matures and extending its capabilities to meet the specific needs of People products.

What you’ll do:

• Take early People products to production and grow them into a suite of experiences.
• Redesign workflows across Workday, Ashby, and other systems.
• Build APIs and connectors that let AI tools safely access relevant context.
• Design the permissioning model for confidential People data.
• Partner with People Products & Data on instrumentation and AI evaluations.
• Create reusable building blocks for People team members.
• Own what you ship across the stack, from React and TypeScript through service code and data models.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack skills: React and TypeScript on the frontend.
• Solid backend engineering skills using Go, PHP, and Python.
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar).
• Sound judgment with sensitive data: authentication and authorization.
• Experience building internal tools or business systems.
• Real product judgment: ability to assess workflows and make decisions on what to build.
• Comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy.

Requirements

• Ability to own systems end to end from ambiguous problem to production.
• Track record of raising the technical bar for the people around you.

Benefits

• Expected total cash compensation (base salary + variable pay) range for this role is currently $180,200.00 - $233,200.00.
• Actual offered salaries will vary based on various factors.