You’ll be a member of our engineering team, helping us build out the web applications that drive our business. We have applications for clients to hire taskers, for taskers to register with the platform, and for our internal users to administer the service. We use Reactjs on the frontend, and Rails on the backend. We’re ideally looking for a full stack engineer but would be thrilled to hire a competent front-end engineer who has aspirations to learn Rails someday.

As a mid-level engineer we expect you to be able to code solutions of moderate complexity on your own. In addition when the more complex projects arise we expect you to collaborate with more senior engineers to learn how to approach more complex problems. TaskRabbit believes strongly in a growth mindset; we’re here to learn and we’re looking for other folks who have an appetite to grow their skills on the job.

Responsibilities

• Build out the web application front end and occasional backend APIs to supportclients, taskers, and internal users
• For examplehelp us remove friction from the tasker registration process or make the client hiring flow more intuitive through a clearer set of steps
• Maintain and expand unit tests and code coverage
• Implement product features and refactor existing code throughout the stack
• Participate incode reviews, listening to feedback and commenting on other’s approaches
• Collaborate with design and product management to conceptualize a new product features

Background and Experience

We welcome applicants from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Below gives you a sense of how we’re thinking about what you’ll need to be successful in the role.

• 2-8 years of experience, comfortableworking independently
• Comfortable with Reactjs, or Ruby/Rails
• Experience building single page applications and calling APIs from JS
• Knowledge of CSS/Sass, MySQL, Redis, and/or ElasticSearch all a plus
• Familiarity with Linux command line, automated build systems would be nice
• Excited to workwith continuous integration and frequent, daily releases
• Like to think about how tobreak problems down into smaller iterable steps

Bonus Points

• Agile. Intelligent. Creative. Problem-solver. Startup lover. You like making things happen.
• We care about experience, not degrees. We’re looking for people that have a passion forprogramming.
• You have contributed to an open source software project. Show us your github account, we’d love to see what you’re enjoy working on.
• You’re familiar with our product and have some ideas on things you’d want to add or change!