Senior Full Stack Engineer - AI Innovation
Senior Full Stack Engineer on Taskrabbit's AI & Innovation team, prototyping and shipping AI-driven features that touch the marketplace's financial infrastructure. Day to day: architecting roadmaps, building Node.js backend and web frontend features, event-driven microservices, and leading AI spec-driven development. Hybrid role based in San Francisco (2 days/week in office).
- Compensation
- $130K–$180K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5 years professional software engineering with a mix of frontend and backend experience and demonstrated impact
- Extensive professional experience with Node.js and microservice architecture
- Strong SQL and data modeling experience (Postgres, Snowflake)
- Hands-on experience with async/event-driven systems (Kafka)
- Proven track record designing and owning observability/alerting for critical systems
- Mastery in building, debugging, and scaling distributed systems
- Excellent communication, ability to influence without authority, strong ownership mentality for systems handling money
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future
- Able to work hybrid: 2 days in office at the San Francisco hub (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with Spec Driven Development
- Hands-on AI tools experience
- Experience with rebuilding legacy software systems
- Familiarity with microservice and event-driven architectures at scale
Full description
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, 2025) 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!
Prior to applying please note:
- We are currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position (including H-1B, OPT, F1, CPT or other employment-based visas). Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
- This role is hybrid requiring 2 days in office at our San Francisco hub every Tuesday & Wednesday (located at 130 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA).
About the Role
We're seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our remotely distributed AI full stack team, someone who builds with quality and care, and grows their impact across our ecosystem. You'll contribute meaningfully to the reliability, performance, and maintainability of our critical financial infrastructure, directly shaping how our customers and taskers experience money.
Our AI & Innovation team is a new incubator for AI projects at Taskrabbit, focused on opportunities that improve the client experience, like how clients discover, describe, and book the help they need. The team's model favors throughput: quickly scoping, building, and proving out ideas. Once a project shows validated, high-impact results, it's handed off to the team best positioned to own it long-term. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll dive deep into our systems, delivering new features while advocating for engineering rigor and operational excellence. You'll work both independently and collaboratively, tackling complex challenges and leaving a lasting impact on our codebase and processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect: Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for AI & Innovation team (backend, frontend web client etc) along with the engineering manager and architects - driving strategy, addressing tech debt, and evolving scalable system architecture, APIs, and data models.