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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 Marketplace team
The Marketplace team is a passionate and collaborative group focused on empowering customers to take action on their projects with confidence and ease, helping more customers start projects and get their jobs done. As a team, we will work on projects that support immediate hiring needs, build trust in Thumbtack and our pros, and also engage customers beyond their initial hiring needs. The team collaborates extensively with product, design, data, and applied science partners.
The Challenge
We have technical problems ranging from building mobile experiences, optimizing performances. Many of the experiences that we build in our apps are to onboard, engage, and convert our users which requires consistent A/B tests in relation to their experiences. Our challenges are pretty open ended, and we move real fast!
What you'll do
- Drive engineering projects to completion, with a tenacious focus on the business impact of those projects. Skilled at prioritizing tasks to deliver on goals with a sense of urgency
- Execute new ideas quickly and effectively in Android while also being a resource to other teams and engineers
- Willing, when necessary, to solve tough technical problems at any level of the stack, and be persistent in getting to the solution
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams such as Product and Design to plan and execute on engineering projects
- Work on large projects and lead small teams of engineers
In order to be successful, you must bring
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in engineering
- Hands-on experience with Kotlin or Java
- Passionate Android engineer comfortable in building, testing, releasing, and maintaining Android applications
- Experience with popular 3rd party libraries, frameworks, and services like RxJava, ButterKnife, AutoValue, Retrofit, Dagger, Crashlytics, and Amplitude, including when not to use one
Expected salary ranges
- For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $212,700 - $259,900.
- For candidates living in Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states, the expected salary range for the role is currently $191,400 - $234,000.
- For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $180,800 - $221,000.
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.
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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: [email protected].
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