Taskrabbit
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States · Senior
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The bottom of this range ($130,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $137,093. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,131 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- You'll be instrumental in shaping the experience of the taskers who power our marketplace.
- Your work will focus on onboarding, category/skill eligibility, and marketplace matching through our Ruby on Rails engine architecture, as well as critical work moving our service contracts toward strongly-typed TypeScript bindings.
Responsibilities
- Drive strategy, tackle tech debt, and evolve our engine boundaries, gateway contracts, and data models.
- Tech Lead: Lead complex, cross-team initiatives around marketplace liquidity and supply-demand matching.
- Solver: Take ambiguous, high-stakes business goals and turn them into clear technical strategies, designs, and experiments.
- Operational Excellence: Improve reliability and observability (Datadog, Kafka) for onboarding, matching, and supply-side systems. Own the hard production debugging and push for real, systemic fixes.
- Champion AI-Driven Development & Contract Binding: Lead adoption of Spec-Driven Development with AI tools, and help move our service integrations toward strongly-typed TypeScript contracts.
- A track record of building and owning observability and alerting for critical systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of leading complex work and influencing multiple teams.
- Hands-on experience with async/event-driven systems (Kafka) and service or engine-boundary architecture.
- Strong communication skills, the ability to influence without authority, and real ownership over systems that affect marketplace supply and tasker trust.
- Experience with Spec Driven Development.
- Hands-on experience with AI tools.
- Experience replatforming legacy monolith code into cleanly-bounded engines.
- Experience moving a typed backend toward TypeScript-bound contracts.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Nice to have
- Strong background in Ruby on Rails and typed Ruby (Sorbet), plus working knowledge of TypeScript, especially contract-driven type generation.
Skills
- Solid SQL and data modeling skills (MySQL).
Compensation
- At Taskrabbit, our approach to compensation is designed to be competitive, transparent, and equitable.
- Total compensation consists of base pay + bonus + benefits + perks.
- The base pay range for this position is $130,000 - $180,000.
- This range is representative of base pay only, and does not include any other total cash compensation amounts, such as company bonus or benefits.
Benefits
- Taskrabbit offers our employees with employer-paid health insurance and a 401k match with immediate vesting for our US based employees.
- An Active Commitment to Equity within our Company and Platform.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status.
Company info
- At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time.
- Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced.
- We're looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love.
- We are an inclusive community where all who share our mission and values belong.
Equal opportunity
- Taskrabbit's commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
- Taskrabbit is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.
- equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position (including H-1B, OPT, F1, CPT or other employment-based visas).
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