Staff Software Engineer - Project Domain Team at Taskrabbit

About Taskrabbit: 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 and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed! This role operates on a hybrid schedule requiring two days of in-office collaboration per week. The position can be based in either our San Francisco office or our new New York City office (opening March 2026). About the Role: The Project Domain Team is architecting the future of Taskrabbit’s service engine. Our mission is to build a scalable, event-driven ecosystem that captures client needs with more precision than ever before. This domain focuses on decoupling Demand from Supply and dismantling legacy constraints, empowering the platform to handle our customers' complex needs. As a Staff Engineer on this team, you won’t just be maintaining a domain system, you will be building the foundation that unlocks high-value revenue streams and enables Taskrabbit to expand into entirely new categories. You will play a pivotal role in creating a better everyday life for our users by making complex home services feel seamless. Join us in creating a better everyday life for everyday people. You will be: • Designing & Driving the implementation of complex, high-volume backend solutions, focusing on core demand flow and event-driven architectures. • Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap by proposing and executing platform improvements that dismantle legacy constraints and increase scalability. • Mentor and collaborate with junior engineers, guiding them through complex design decisions, best practices, and effective goal decomposition. • Establish and document best-in-class coding patterns and domain standards, ensuring they are accessible and actionable across the team. • Maintain a culture of excellence through thorough code reviews and by troubleshooting complex performance, testing, and deployment issues in a high-traffic production environment. • Partner effectively with Product, Design, and other domain teams to ensure cohesive feature delivery and a seamless user experience. You should have: • 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a primary focus on building and scaling complex backend systems. • Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, and the NestJS framework, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, production-grade features at scale. • Extensive experience building and consuming API-driven applications (e.g., RESTful services) and a strong understanding of microservice architectures. • A solid foundation in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles and the ability to apply them to solve complex business logic challenges. • Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms to build decoupled, resilient systems. • A strong commitment to code quality, comprehensive documentation, and a mindset geared toward operational excellence and system reliability. You might be a fit if you have: • Experienced in Ruby on Rails with a proven ability to navigate and interpret complex legacy codebases. • Expertise in database technologies such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, with the ability to design efficient schemas and write highly optimized queries. • Experience operating in a distributed systems environment and a solid conceptual understanding of event-driven architecture (e.g., using message queues or streams). • Experience working with background processing systems like Redis or Sidekiq. • Experience building and supporting containerized applications deployed into Kubernetes infrastructures. • Excellent communication and collaborative skills for working with cross-functional teams. 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 $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. 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. You’ll love working here because: • 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. Taskrabbit’s commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: 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 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.