Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more.
At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. 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.
Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.
- Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU
- Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024) Continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories.
- DataBird Journal — Workplace Diversity & Inclusion Awards
- #1 Best Companies for Diversity in 2019 & 2020
- #4 (2019) → #1 (2020) Best Companies for Women
Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed!.
This role will be fully remote through August 2025 with the expectation that employees will begin working Hybrid 2 days per week in our dedicated office space in either San Francisco or New York City starting in September of 2025.
About the Role:The Developer Excellence (DevEx) team at TaskRabbit is dedicated to empowering our developers by building tools, services, and foundational architecture that enhance their efficiency, productivity, and ability to ship high-quality code rapidly. Our team governs, architects, and develops solutions for writing, testing, and debugging code, as well as owning many core aspects of platform architecture. We thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment where shipping new code daily is part of our DNA.
As a Backend Engineer on the DevEx team, you will play a key role in enabling the efficiency of domain owners by establishing robust tools and TTPs (Techniques, Tactics, and Protocols). We serve as coaches, consultants, and supporters for every domain team, contributing to their initial domain inception, setting clear expectations for success, and fostering consistency in engineering practices. Through these efforts, we help teams modernize the platform and achieve engineering excellence. Your decisions will significantly impact the tools, patterns, and conventions that define engineering practices at TaskRabbit.
Join us in creating a better everyday life for everyday people.
You will be:- Designing and driving impactful changes that boost the productivity of engineers across the organization.
- Mentoring and collaborating with junior engineers, guiding them through design decisions, code implementation, and breaking down goals into actionable steps.
- Publishing and promoting Techniques, Tactics, and Protocols (TTPs) that support platform modernization and drive engineering excellence.
- Innovating and contributing to the technical roadmap, ensuring continuous improvements, enhancements, and updates.
- Participating in code reviews, offering constructive feedback and learning from others’ approaches.
- Documenting best practices and coding patterns, ensuring they are accessible and actionable for the team.
- Collaborating across teams to promote consistency and alignment in engineering practices.
- Improving developer workflows and platform reliability by identifying pain points and delivering creative, impactful solutions.
- Overall, 5+ years of experience in software development.
- Deep Experience in Ruby on Rails.
- Proficiency in modern web technologies such as Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React is highly desirable for this role.
- Experience in building API-driven applications or endpoints.
- Experience in MySQL, Redis, and/or ElasticSearch.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetess, including designing, deploying, and managing applications, troubleshooting complex issues, optimizing application performance, and contributing to developer-centric tooling built on Kubernetes.
- Experience in building developer platforms, defining the strategy, and providing technical direction to the group to get those executed.
- Strong design and architecture skills
- Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
- Passion for improving the developer experience and mentorship.
- An interest in thinking about how to break problems down into smaller iterative steps.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Expertise in helping organize and scope high-priority projects and plans to keep us moving forward.
- Great attention to detail and quality.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
- A desire to collaborate together with a tight-knit team.
Compensation & Benefits:
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 $115,000 - $160,000. This range is representative of base pay only, and does not include any other total cash compensation amounts, such as company bonus or benefits. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above, and will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, geography, and level.
- Taskrabbit is a Hybrid Company. We value flexibility and choice but also stay committed to regular in-person connection.
- The People. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams -- people you can be proud to work with!
- The Diverse Culture. We believe that we make better decisions when our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Women make up half of our leadership team and our diversity representation is above that of the tech industry average.
- The Perks. Taskrabbit offers our employees with employer-paid health insurance and a 401k match with immediate vesting for our US based employees. We offer all of our global employees generous and flexible time off with 2 company-wide closure weeks, Taskrabbit product stipends, wellness + productivity + education stipends, IKEA discounts, reproductive health support, and more. Benefits vary by country of employment.
An Active Commitment to Equity within our Company and Platform. We are an inclusive community where all who share our mission and values belong. Our anti-racist culture actively strengthens the knowledge, understanding, and awareness of underrepresented experiences and our ongoing allyship commitment. Our diverse team represents the communities we serve, breaking down systemic barriers, and transforming lives- one action at a time.
Taskrabbit is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. 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. Taskrabbit is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
Taskrabbit will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.
Taskrabbit will never use text or chat applications to conduct interviews. We have a thoughtful and interactive interview process that includes an initial recruiter phone screen and several video-based interviews with our hiring teams. Communications will always be conducted by taskrabbit.com domain names.
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