Taskrabbit
Staff Software Engineer - Experimentation Platform
San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+
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$15,131 more — $165,131 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
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
- Your technical decisions will have a direct and highly visible impact on engineering productivity, product velocity, and the overall experience of our marketplace!
- Join us in transforming lives, one task at a time.
- Work closely with Ruby on Rails backend services and integrate shared capabilities into existing application infrastructure
Responsibilities
- We serve as the foundation that enables our engineering organization to stay on track, move faster, and build scalable, high-impact features.
- Design, build, and maintain robust, high-performance TypeScript-based APIs and foundational services
- Propose and drive improvements to platform performance, reliability, and developer experience
- Guide and mentor other engineers on best practices for feature experimentation, API design, and scalable architecture
- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to establish a unified data-driven experimentation strategy across Taskrabbit
Skills
- 8+ years of experience developing modern APIs
- Hands-on experience with at least one major experimentation & feature flagging platform (e.g., Optimizely, Growthbook, Statsig, or similar)
- Professional experience with AI led agentic software development (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc)
- Experience with modern software development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments
- Passion for mentoring engineers and elevating team capabilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical subjects clearly
- Proven track record of breaking down complex platform initiatives into manageable, high-impact iterations
- Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and data streaming mechanisms (e.g. Kafka)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), infrastructure as code, and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Comfortable with relational and key-value datastores (e.g., MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch)
- Experience with Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) design patterns
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 $150,000 - $200,000.
- 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.
- Lead the architecture, integration, and adoption of our company-wide experimentation platform to enable rapid iteration and feature testing across teams
- 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.
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