Front End Engineer

Thumbtack is a local services marketplace that connects customers who need to get things done with local, skilled professionals who can help. From plumbers and painters to DJs and personal trainers, Thumbtack helps millions of customers find the right professional for their project in over 1,000 categories.

Here at Thumbtack, we’re building the easiest way for people to hire local professionals for projects big and small. From house painting to personal training and everything in between, we match customers to the right pros for all of life’s projects. Thumbtack’s engineering team is a diverse group of problems solvers always hungry for a good challenge. Whether on front end or back end, desktop or mobile, we’re handling some seriously comprehensive data, growing super fast, and building products used by thousands of customers and pros every day.

As a front­-end engineer at Thumbtack, your breadth of skills paired with our bottom-­up product process will give you as much autonomy and license as you can handle. If you can build it and it’s good for the company, do it! There's no limit to how valuable you can be or how much impact you can make here. We’re looking for people who want to make a mark on the world—who have the ambition to dream big and the talent to bring those dreams to fruition.

* You see the web as a beautiful, intricate, occasionally clumsy Rube Goldberg machine. Working with it isn’t a chore; it’s a challenge. * You're perfectly comfortable with all the normal front­-end technologies (JavaScript and its derivatives, CSS, semantic HTML, etc), but don’t mind the occasional jumps into PHP, Python, or database queries. * You spend almost as much time inspecting a page's elements and figuring out how it works as you do using it. You're insatiably curious about how websites are made. * You think complaining about IE support is so five years ago. You know exactly how, when, and where not to play nice across different browsers and platforms. * You keep abreast with modern web practices and trends but know when to stay pragmatic in their implementations. * You have a portfolio of real, live projects or contributions to open-­source. * You’re excited about clean and accessible markup, A/B testing and data-­driven decisions, responsive web design, as well as graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. * You have an eye and appreciation for good, user-­friendly design.