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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Thumbtack, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $179,400.0 - $272,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Encodings, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, TypeScript, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Build Management, Build Tools
- **Published:** June 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/thumbtack/jobs/senior-software-engineer-developer-experience_us_5hb7lcvj

## About the Role

* Demonstrated experience building developer infrastructure, DevEx, or platform tools that other engineers depend on, from CDE rollouts and internal CLIs to MCP servers and build/CI at 100+ engineer scale
 * Fluency in the languages our tooling is built in: Go and Python for CLIs, services, MCP servers, and Slackbots, plus TypeScript and React for the web UIs
 * Strong systems thinking: you reason about build pipelines, CI/CD, dev environments, and test infrastructure as interconnected systems, not isolated tools
 * Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and considered opinions about their limits, where they help, and how to scale their use
 * 6+ years of industry experience in software engineering, including cross-team projects with measurable impact on engineering productivity
 * A UX mindset applied to engineering systems: you think in personas, journeys, and end-to-end workflows, and design for the people and agents who use what you build

## Description

* We're building the infrastructure for an AI-native engineering organization, and every stream here is active work today: agentic developer tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, backed by a library of skills that encode Thumbtack-specific knowledge; a catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that make our internal tools AI-accessible; and cloud development environments (CDEs) built for humans and agents alike
 * Alongside these, we're modernizing the Web and CLI tooling layers engineers reach for every day
 * A single improvement we ship can move dozens of teams forward
 * Build the platforms behind agentic developer workflows: roll out the tools the org builds on (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and ship the skills, plugins, and MCP servers that run across them
 * Design and build the product surfaces engineers and AI agents reach for daily: self-service workflows in our Backstage developer portal, our developer CLI, IDE integrations, and the framework engineers use to build and deploy their own agents
 * Own and evolve our Cloud Development Environment (CDE) platform for both human developers and AI agents
 * Improve the build systems, CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and observability the whole org depends on
 * Prototype and evaluate new AI developer tools as they land, and decide what to adopt, configure, and scale across the engineering org


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