Thumbtack
Technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,DeveloperExperience
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“Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Thumbtack. Skills: Developer Experience, AI developer tools, Cloud Development Environment. Build platforms behind agentic developer workflows. Roll out tools”
What You'll Achieve.
Move dozens of teams forward
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years industry experience, Cross-team projects experience, Demonstrated experience building developer infrastructure, Systems thinking, UX mindset applied to engineering systems, Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools, Fluency in Go and Python, Fluency in TypeScript and React
Nice to Have
Experience with Claude Code, Experience with Cursor, Experience with Codex
What You'll Do.
Build platforms behind agentic developer workflows
Design product surfaces for engineers and AI agents
Build self-service workflows
Build IDE integrations
Build framework for agents
Own and evolve Cloud Development Environment platform
Improve build systems
Improve CI/CD pipelines
Improve test infrastructure
Improve observability
Prototype and evaluate new AI developer tools
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with engineers; Cross-functional teams
Full 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 DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE TEAM The Developer Experience (DevEx) team makes Thumbtack's ~250 engineers more productive. We own the AI-powered developer workflows, cloud development environments, and internal developer platform the whole engineering org builds on. We're small and senior: a four-person team in Productivity Engineering, alongside Mobile Infra, Frontend Infrastructure, and Design Systems Engineering. We partner closely with engineers across the company to find their pain points and ship solutions. You can read more about our engineering culture on the Thumbtack Engineering Blog https://medium.com/thumbtack-engineering. THE CHALLENGE We're building the infrastructure for an AI-native engineering organization, and every stream here is active work today: agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, backed by a library of skills that encode Thumbtack-specific knowledge; a catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that make our internal tools AI-accessible; and cloud development environments (CDEs) built for humans and agents alike. Alongside these, we're modernizing the Web and CLI tooling layers engineers reach for every day. A single improvement we ship can move dozens of teams forward. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Build the platforms behind agentic developer workflows: roll out the tools the org builds on (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and ship the skills, plugins, and M
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