Senior Full Stack Engineer - AI Innovation

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 RoleWe'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 ResponsibilitiesArchitect: 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.Tech Lead: Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives.Solver: Translate ambiguous, high-stakes business goals into clear technical strategies, designs, and experiments.Multiplier: Serve as a Javascript subject-matter expert, champion high-quality testing and AI practices, mentor engineers, and produce durable technical documentation.Champion AI-Driven Development: Lead the adoption of Spec-Driven Development (SDD) leveraging advanced AI tools, ensuring engineers consistently turn well-defined specs into robust, scalable Node.js implementations and comprehensive test suites.Spec-Driven Development (SDD): Champion SDD practices using AI tooling, ensuring the consistent translation of precise specs into resilient Node.js implementations and thorough test suites.Requirements5 years professional software engineering including a mix of frontend and backend experience, with demonstrated impact (leading complex domains, influencing multiple teams).Extensive professional experience with Node.js and microservice architecture; familiarity with Ruby on Rails is a plus.Strong SQL and data modeling for experience (Postgres, Snowflake).Hands-on experience with async/event-driven systems (Kafka) and microservice architecture.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, and a strong ownership mentality for systems handling money and trust.Bonus PointsExperience with Spec Driven Development. Hands-on AI tools experience.Experience with rebuilding legacy software systems.Familiarity with microservice and event-driven architectures at scale.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 $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. 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. AI-Assisted Prescreening Notice [US Based Candidates Only]: As part of our hiring process, we may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the initial prescreening of applications and responses. This tool does not make hiring decisions — every application and response is reviewed by a member of our recruiting team to determine fit for the role. If you would prefer not to have your application processed using this tool, you may opt out by selecting 'opt out' in the application form or by emailing View email address on click.appcast.io, and your application will be reviewed manually with no impact on your candidacy.