Business Systems Engineer

11 Minutes ago • All levels • $125,200 PA - $190,600 PA
System Design

Job Description

As a Business Systems Engineer at Thumbtack, you will maintain and evolve tools and applications for Sales and Service teams. This role involves collaborating with engineers, product managers, and operations leaders on projects ranging from backend architecture for partner deals to optimizing AI tools. You will design, build, and maintain integrations between platforms like Salesforce and Genesys, launch pilots, and partner with various teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions. The ideal candidate is energized by ambiguity, eager to build experiments, and drives measurable impact through thoughtful Salesforce design and process innovation.
Must Have:
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to gather requirements, refine solutions, and deliver high-quality technical outcomes, ensuring integrations follow best practices for security, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Design, build, and maintain integrations between platforms, including Salesforce, BigQuery, Genesys and other enterprise tools.
  • Build and launch pilots or MVPs in fast-moving environments where requirements may still be forming.
  • Partner with teams like Business Operations, Product, Data Engineering, and Data Science to translate business needs into scalable, measurable solutions.
  • Administer, support, and extend integrations across a broad and growing tech stack, primarily Salesforce and Genesys Cloud CX, but also including Pardot, Workato, Ironclad, Datagroomr, Observe.AI, and conversational AI platforms.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering on backend systems and integrations to automate business workflows and enable AI powered automation.
  • Drive best practices around data hygiene, user access, and documentation, while staying current on platform releases and AI-driven tooling.
  • Ability to write basic scripts (e.g. Python, Javascript, shell) for automating backend processes and manipulating data along with strong knowledge of SQL with intimate ability to understand data flows.
  • Working knowledge of integration concepts like APIs, webhooks, event-driven integration architecture, and authentication frameworks (e.g. OAuth) with hands-on experience using a middleware platform (e.g., Workato, MuleSoft) to manage connections between applications.
  • An understanding of what it means to build high-quality, maintainable, scalable tools or applications.
  • The ability to break down complex problems rigorously and understand the tradeoffs needed to deliver great, impactful tools and applications on aggressive timelines.
  • Comfortable communicating about your work with both technical and non-technical team members.
  • Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, with the ability to systematically identify and resolve complex issues that span multiple integrated applications.

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About the Business Applications Team

We deliver trusted, scalable, secure services and infrastructure to empower employees with the tools they need to get work done. We partner with the business and own our platform of internal tools throughout their lifecycle -- intake, prioritization, buy/build, implementation, support and retirement.

About the role

As a Business Systems Engineer, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and evolving the tools and applications that help our Sales and Service teams bring the vision to life. You’ll collaborate with other engineers, product managers, end users, and operations leaders to execute a broad range of projects; everything from backend architecture for partner deals to optimizing conversation routing in our AI Tools.

This role is perfect for someone who’s energized by ambiguity, eager to build experiments and pilots, and excited to drive measurable impact through thoughtful Salesforce design and process innovation. You’ll be part of a team that values fast, iterative execution but without sacrificing quality or clarity.

What you'll do

  • Collaborate cross-functionally to gather requirements, refine solutions, and deliver high-quality technical outcomes. Ensure integrations follow best practices for security, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Design, build, and maintain integrations between platforms, including Salesforce, BigQuery Genesys and other enterprise tools
  • Build and launch pilots or MVPs in fast-moving environments where requirements may still be forming
  • Partner with teams like Business Operations, Product, Data Engineering, and Data Science to translate business needs into scalable, measurable solutions.
  • Administer, support, and extend integrations across a broad and growing tech stack. Consisting primarily of Salesforce and Genesys Cloud CX, but also including Pardot, Workato, Ironclad, Datagroomr, Observe.AI, and conversational AI platforms.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering on backend systems and integrations to automate business workflows and enable AI powered automation.
  • Drive best practices around data hygiene, user access, and documentation, while staying current on platform releases and AI-driven tooling.

In order to be successful, you must bring

  • Ability to write basic scripts (e.g. Python, Javascript, shell) for automating backend processes and manipulating data along with strong knowledge of SQL with intimate ability to understand data flows.
  • Working knowledge of integration concepts like APIs, webhooks, event-driven integration architecture, and authentication frameworks (e.g. OAuth) with hands-on experience using a middleware platform (e.g., Workato, MuleSoft) to manage connections between applications.
  • An understanding of what it means to build high-quality, maintainable, scalable tools or applications -- and you enjoy doing it.
  • The ability to break down complex problems rigorously and understand the tradeoffs needed to deliver great, impactful tools and applications on aggressive timelines.
  • You’re comfortable communicating about your work with both technical and non-technical team members, including engineers, product managers, designers, analysts and end users.
  • Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, with the ability to systematically identify and resolve complex issues that span multiple integrated applications.

Expected salary ranges

  • For candidates living in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros, the expected salary range for the role is currently $147,300- $190,600.
  • For candidates living in Austin, TX or Washington DC metros or in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington states, the expected salary range for the role is currently $132,600 - $171,600.
  • For candidates living in all other US locations, the expected salary range for this role is currently $125,200 - $162,000.

Actual offered salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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