Software Engineer, NHX Express & Guide

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Thumbtack is seeking a Software Engineer for the NHX Express & Guide Team, which is innovating home services with AI-native interactions. The role involves building end-to-end product experiences using LLMs, vision models, and agentic workflows to help users describe and solve home issues. Responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional teams, developing backend services and APIs, integrating AI models, owning systems for processing real-world input, and partnering with ML teams for performance monitoring. The team focuses on fast experimentation and iterative improvements to make everyday life better through technology. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of software engineering experience and a passion for user-delighting product experiences.
Must have:
  • 2+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Passion for creating delightful user experiences
  • Curiosity and drive for cutting-edge technology
  • Hands-on experience building with AI
  • Fluent in at least one major programming language (Go, Python preferred)
  • Familiarity with LLMs and ML frameworks
  • Experience with relational & non-relational databases
Good to have:
  • Experience with model performance monitoring & fine tuning

Job Details

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.

Thumbtack is the one app you need to take care of and improve your home — from personalized guidance to AI tools and a best-in-class hiring experience. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses. If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

About the NHX Express & Guide Team

The NHX Express & Guide team is reimagining how homeowners express problems and take action in the home services space. Our mission is simple but ambitious: help users feel seen, supported, and confident at every step of their journey from recognizing an issue to hiring the right professional. We’re building experiences that reduce uncertainty, clarify intent, and unlock forward momentum.

We’re an AI-native team at the core of Thumbtack’s product vision. We use multimodal inputs, Large Language Models (LLMs), and structured intelligence to transform how people describe home issues, troubleshoot needs, and discover solutions. Whether it’s interpreting a photo of a leaky faucet or guiding someone through a tricky repair with dynamic questions, we’re creating a new interaction layer that feels more like talking to a human than filling out a form.

The Challenge

This is a unique opportunity to design a brand-new kind of experience that helps people care for their homes with more clarity, confidence, and ease. We’re not just layering in AI features, we’re rethinking the product from the ground up using LLMs, vision models, and agentic workflows to create smarter, more human interactions. The team moves fast, shipping real features and learning quickly through dual-track execution balancing short-term impact with long-term innovation. We focus on solving real-world problems with clarity, not just building flashy demos. If you're excited about using cutting-edge tech to make everyday life better, you’ll thrive here.

What you'll do

  • Build and ship end-to-end product experiences that help users describe and solve home issues using AI-native interactions.
  • Collaborate with designers, researchers, and product managers to prototype, test, and launch features that feel natural and support multimodality.
  • Develop backend services and APIs that power intelligent intake flows, dynamic guidance, and personalized hiring suggestions.
  • Integrate LLMs and vision models into user-facing experiences, applying techniques like context engineering, retrieval augmented generation, and structured memory.
  • Own and improve systems that turn messy real-world input (like photos or voice notes) into actionable insights for our pros and users.
  • Partner with infra and ML teams to monitor model performance, optimize latency, and drive continuous improvement in AI quality.
  • Contribute to a culture of fast experimentation and thoughtful iteration, learning from every launch to improve both product and process

In order to be successful, you must bring

  • 2+ years of experience in software engineering
  • A strong passion for creating product experiences that genuinely delight users and improve their quality of life
  • Curiosity and drive to stay on top of cutting-edge technology, with a habit of bringing those learnings into everyday work
  • Hands-on experience building with AI whether through side projects, Vibe coding apps, or personal experiments, we’d love to see what you’ve built and hear how you approached it
  • Fluent in at least one major programming language and would be able to switch between multiple languages. We mainly use Go, Python for our backend  with Swift, Kotlin and Java for our mobile apps
  • Familiarity with LLMs, machine learning frameworks, model performance monitoring & fine tuning
  • Solid experience building software on top of relational & non-relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB

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Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law. 

Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: recruitingops@thumbtack.com

If you are a California resident, please review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws contained in Thumbtack’s Privacy policy available at https://www.thumbtack.com/privacy/ .

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