Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

Thumbtack; Toronto; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in Toronto is seeking an experienced backend engineer to develop resilient services and reusable libraries. The ideal candidate will have 5 years of experience, proficiency in languages such as Go or Python, and a strong understanding of AWS and Linux. This role embraces diversity and is committed to equal opportunity. Competitive compensation and a supportive work environment are offered in this position.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles with exposure to high-scale production environments.
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting services that handle critical user-facing traffic.
• Solid understanding of databases, caching, and messaging systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services that provide core application capabilities.
• Develop reusable libraries and frameworks for logging, monitoring, and service-to-service communication.
• Support platforms that create leveraged software for the entire engineering organization.

Skills

Backend experience

Proficiency in Go, Python, or PHP

Strong knowledge of AWS

Strong knowledge of Linux

Collaboration across teams

Tools

DynamoDB

Postgres

Redis

Kafka

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 300000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you join us. Imagine what well build together.

About the Engineering team

At Thumbtack engineers at every level build products and systems that directly impact our customers and professionals. Our challenges span a wide variety of areas ranging from building search and booking experiences to optimizing pricing systems to building tools to help professionals grow their businesses. We believe in tackling these hard problems together as a team with strong values around collaboration ownership and transparency. To read more about the hard problems that our team is taking on visit our engineering blog.

Challenge

This team sits at the intersection of platform and product engineering. The challenge is twofold :

Scale & Reliability: Our services must handle high traffic and core application logic while meeting strict uptime and latency expectations.

Enablement: We must also empower other product teams with reusable libraries frameworks and patterns that accelerate their development while maintaining consistency and sustainability across Thumbtack's Go‑based ecosystem.

Youll be tasked with evolving core services that underpin Thumbtack's growth while enabling engineers company‑wide to move faster with confidence.

What you'll do

• Design build and maintain resilient backend services that provide core application capabilities (e.g. identity media delivery / communication).
• Develop and maintain reusable libraries and frameworks for logging monitoring storage access and service‑to‑service communication.
• Partner with product and platform teams to design APIs and distributed systems patterns that are reliable efficient and easy to integrate.
• Anticipate scaling challenges through capacity planning and proactive engineering.
• Participate in the teams on‑call rotation ensuring services meet defined SLAs and addressing production issues.

In order to be successful you must bring

• 5 years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles with exposure to high‑scale production environments.
• Proficiency in a backend language such as but not limited to Go Python or PHP to build highly available APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and Linux.
• Experience designing operating and troubleshooting services that handle critical user‑facing traffic.
• Solid understanding of databases caching and messaging systems (e.g. DynamoDB Postgres Redis Kafka or equivalents).
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams balancing product velocity with long‑term service health.
• Experience working on platforms that create leveraged software for the entire engineering organization to use and build on top of.

Remote

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.

Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process please contact : .

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