Staff Software Engineer, Thumbtack

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, at least 2 of which focused in the data domain
• Excellent ability to understand the needs of, and collaborate with, stakeholders in other functions, especially other Engineering teams
• Strong fluency in at least one major programming language and would be able to switch between multiple languages. Thumbtack’s main production stack is Go, however we tend to use Python with some Scala
• Experience designing, architecting, and maintaining data systems that serve deeply technical customers
• Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work, from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance

Desirable

• The Data Platform team is a central team of software engineers who employees with various backgrounds can easily build pipelines, systems, and models, all while keeping Customer and Pro privacy in mind
• You’ll work deeply with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and other Software Engineers from across the company as customers, and collaborate closely with the Site Reliability and core service Engineering teams as partners
• Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle across Engineering
• Work with the Data Engineering and Machine Learning teams as stakeholders to identify gaps in our current capabilities, and help build and execute on a multi-year roadmap to close them
• Directly work with teams consisting of product engineers, analysts, data scientists, machine learning engineers throughout the company to understand their data needs, and make recommendations both how to build to their needs, but also to build processes and knowledge bases to support them
• Drive data quality and best practices across the company
• Help build the next generation of marketing data products at Thumbtack, based on real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka