Staff Engineer, Authentication & Platform Services

Taskrabbit; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k match

Paid time off

IKEA discounts

Product stipends

Job summary

Taskrabbit is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the design and evolution of shared platform capabilities powering the marketplace. You will guide authentication, identity, event-driven systems, and API infrastructure while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable architecture.

Based in San Francisco with a hybrid schedule, you will collaborate with Rails teams and product leadership to deliver high-impact, reliable services that accelerate product velocity and improve developer experience across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience developing modern APIs and distributed services.
• Experience with authentication platforms (Auth0, Okta, Cognito) including OAuth2/OpenID Connect/SSO.
• Experience designing and operating event-based architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge).
• Experience building and maintaining robust TypeScript-based APIs and services.
• Strong architectural design skills focused on scalable shared capabilities.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience with CI/CD and containerized environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, integration, and adoption of shared platform capabilities across teams.
• Design, build, and maintain robust TypeScript-based APIs and foundational services.
• Drive event-based architecture adoption for reliable, loosely coupled communications.
• Own and evolve authentication/authorization, including third-party integrations.
• Collaborate with Rails backend services to weave shared capabilities into the app infrastructure.
• Propose and drive improvements to platform performance, reliability, and security.
• Mentor engineers on API design, system design, and scalable architecture.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to define a unified technical strategy for shared services.

Skills

API design

Auth platforms

Event-driven

TypeScript APIs

System design

Rails integration

CI/CD

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Taskrabbit is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the design and evolution of shared platform capabilities powering the marketplace. You will guide authentication, identity, event-driven systems, and API infrastructure while mentoring engineers and shaping scalable architecture.

Based in San Francisco with a hybrid schedule, you will collaborate with Rails teams and product leadership to deliver high-impact, reliable services that accelerate product velocity and improve developer experience across