Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

If you are looking for an impactful IT role, Thumbtack is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience in the USA. This senior-level position offers a salary range of $210,800.00 to $272,800.00 for candidates located in the San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros, with adjusted ranges available for other specified regions.

About the Role

You will join a small, four-person Developer Experience (DevEx) team within Productivity Engineering. The team builds and owns the AI-powered developer workflows, cloud development environments, and internal platforms used by approximately 250 engineers. Key initiatives include rolling out agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, modernizing CLI and web tooling, and evolving Cloud Development Environments for both humans and AI agents.

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelors degree.
• 6+ years of industry experience in software engineering, featuring cross-team projects with measurable impact on productivity.
• Demonstrated background building developer infrastructure, DevEx, or platform tools at a scale of 100+ engineers.
• Strong systems thinking regarding build pipelines, CI/CD, and test infrastructure.
• A UX mindset focused on end-to-end developer workflows and personas.
• Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
• Fluency in Go and Python, as well as TypeScript and React.