Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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

Job summary

A tech company in Toronto is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance the developer experience. You will work with experienced engineers, improve development workflows, and tackle complex challenges in a collaborative environment. Successful candidates will have at least 2 years of software engineering experience and proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Java. This role offers full-time employment with opportunities for mentorship and growth along with a remote work option.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Curiosity, initiative and a willingness to learn new tools and systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tools that support workflows.
• Improve build, test, and deployment systems for better performance.
• Collaborate with engineers to identify opportunities for improvements.
• Participate in code reviews and team planning.

Skills

Programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java)

DevOps practices

Collaboration and communication

Interest in infrastructure tooling

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions)

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 can build together.

About the Developer Experience Team

The Developer Experience (DX) team at Thumbtack is focused on making engineering fast, reliable, and delightful. We tackle hard problems collaboratively, grounded in strong values of ownership and transparency. As a DX team member you’ll partner closely with engineers company‑wide to identify pain points, design pragmatic solutions, and drive impactful improvements that elevate our entire engineering organization.

The Challenge

This is an exciting opportunity for someone early in their career to work closely with experienced engineers, learn best practices, and make a meaningful impact on how our developers work every day.

You’ll help maintain and improve the infrastructure that supports our entire engineering organization. This includes writing code, debugging tricky systems problems, and helping drive incremental improvements to our tools and processes. We believe in learning by doing and you’ll have the support of a collaborative team that values mentorship and continuous growth.

We’re tackling some of the most important and complex challenges in modern software development. We’re introducing GenAI tooling into a hybrid local / cloud development environment, balancing innovation with reliability and performance. We’re streamlining the designer‑developer feedback loop to enable rapid prototyping and faster iteration. And we’re building the foundations for measuring developer productivity across diverse workflows to help Thumbtack make smarter, faster engineering investments.

What you’ll do

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal tools that support software development workflows
• Improve build, test, and deployment systems to make them faster, more reliable, and easier to use
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to understand pain points and identify opportunities for automation or tooling improvements
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team planning

In order to be successful you must bring

• Minimum of 2 years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, TypeScript, Java).
• Interest in infrastructure tooling, developer experience, or DevOps practices.
• Curiosity, initiative and a willingness to learn new tools and systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Bonus: Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins), build systems (e.g. Bazel, Gradle) or containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).

Key Skills

Account Payable, Apache Commons, Community Support, Corporate Risk Management, Garment, Java

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Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

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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