Full-Stack Engineer, AI Platform

Thumbtack; Victoria; On-site; CAD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Thumbtack is seeking a software engineer to help build the internal platform enabling AI-enabled workflows for business teams. You’ll design interfaces to configure agents, implement observability, and ship end-to-end features across React/TypeScript, services, and data models.

Bring 3+ years of software engineering, strong React/TypeScript frontend, capable Go/PHP/Python backend, and experience with relational/non-relational data stores.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong frontend skills with React and TypeScript, including complex state and data-dense interfaces.
• Solid backend ability with Go, PHP, and Python, and willingness to pick up new languages.
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar).
• Demonstrated product judgment to prioritize work and cut features when needed.
• Experience handling non-deterministic systems, partial failures, and user-correctable workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build interfaces used by business teams to configure agents, review actions, and understand what happened and why.
• Build observability and evaluation tooling to make agent behavior legible and measurable.
• Work across stack from React/TypeScript to service code and data models, owning features end-to-end.
• Collaborate with business partners to translate operational problems into working software.
• Own full lifecycle of work, including monitoring and post-launch improvements.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Front-end development

Go

PHP

Python

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

Product judgment

Ambiguity navigation

Job description

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.

Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

About The Business Applications Team

The Business Applications org builds and operates the internal systems that keep Thumbtack running at scale: Salesforce-centered workflows, admin tooling, and the integrations that connect teams across the company. We're now expanding that foundation into a broader internal platform for AI-enabled work — shared APIs, reusable integration patterns, and safe, auditable capabilities for business-critical actions. We work directly with the business teams who depend on these systems, turning complex operational needs into software that's easier to run, extend, and automate responsibly.

The challenge

Agents can already take action inside Thumbtack's internal systems. The harder problem is making that trustworthy: giving business teams a way to configure what agents are allowed to do, review and correct their work, and see clearly what happened and why. Without that, automation stays stuck in pilots. This engineer owns the product surface that turns agent capability into something teams will actually rely on for business‑critical work — and the services behind it.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build the interfaces business teams use to configure agents, review their work, approve or correct actions, and understand what happened and why.
• Build observability and evaluation tooling that makes agent behavior legible — where it succeeded, where it failed, and whether a change made things better.
• Work across the stack, from React and TypeScript through service code and data models, owning features end to end through build, test, launch, and iteration.
• Partner directly with the business teams who use what you build; translate ambiguous operational problems into working software.
• Own the full lifecycle of your work, including monitoring and post‑launch improvement.

In order to be successful, you must bring

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong frontend skills with React and TypeScript, including complex application state and data‑dense interfaces.
• Solid backend engineering ability. We use Go, PHP, and Python, and we expect strong engineers to pick up a new language.
• Working knowledge of relational and non‑relational data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, or similar).
• Real product judgment: you can look at a workflow, decide what to build, and say what to cut.
• Interest in the problems that come with non‑deterministic systems — uncertainty, partial failure, and designing for human correction rather than assuming a correct answer every time.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, close your own knowledge gaps, and deliver in an evolving environment.

Expected salary ranges

• For candidates living in Ontario and British Columbia, the expected total cash compensation (base salary + variable pay, if applicable) range for the role is currently $154,700.00 - $200,200.00.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.

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