Job Description

Location

Virtual, Ontario

Department

Engineering

Job Type

Full Time

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes.

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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 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 Marketing Tech Team

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Marketing Tech is a critical team at Thumbtack overseeing and optimizing millions of marketing spend and is directly responsible for driving our company's top line revenue growth. As part of this team, you'd get to work on a wide range of Marketing lanes such as paid (SEM, Social, Streaming Media, etc) as well as organic (SEO, Engagement and Lifecycle Marketing, etc) and have an outsized impact on our broader marketing efforts.

Hear from

Michelle

"Opinions from all across the organization are

valued and listened to

, and it's easy and encouraged to get involved with a project you're passionate about."

Michelle

Senior Manager, Engineering

The challenge

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Thumbtack is relatively early in the journey of building out a world-class Marketing Tech stack. This role reports to the Embedded Data Engineering team, but works day-to-day with the Marketing Tech engineering team, with a small sub-team of two other Data Engineers. You'll work collaboratively to develop and build the vision of incorporating data through all aspects of marketing at Thumbtack, designed with our cross-functional team. Thumbtack fosters a very collaborative culture of builders, and as such, you'd help set the data architecture, be hands on in building our datasets and mentor engineers as we go.

What you'll do

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Collaboratively refine and evangelize a comprehensive framework for integrating data-thinking into the software development lifecycle for marketing Design, architect, and maintain core marketing datasets, data marts, and feature stores that support a blend of mature products and features with a rapidly evolving product line, in partnership with analytics, data science, and machine learning Integrate with teams consisting of product engineers, analysts, data scientists, machine learning engineers throughout marketing to understand their data needs, and help design datasets with the same engineering rigor as any other software we design Drive data quality and best practices across marketing and business areas Help build the next generation of marketing data products at Thumbtack, based on real-time data products on top of Apache Kafka

In order to be successful, you must bring

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4 or more years of experience designing and building data sets and warehouses Excellent ability to understand the needs of and collaborate with stakeholders in other functions, especially Analytics, and identify opportunities for process improvements across teams Expertise in SQL for analytics/reporting/business intelligence and also for building SQL- and Python-based transforms inside an ETL pipeline, or similar Experience designing, architecting, and maintaining a data warehouse and data marts that seamlessly stitches together data from production databases, clickstream data, and external APIs to serve multiple stakeholders Familiarity building the above with a modern data stack based on a cloud-native data warehouse, in our case we use BigQuery, dbt, and Apache Airflow, but a similar stack is fine Strong sense of ownership and pride in your work, from ideation and requirements-gathering to project completion and maintenance Experience in the marketing domain and third party tools like Branch, Fivetran etc. ###

Thumbtack by the numbers

$600B+

opportunity in Thumbtack's market home services

4M+

customers in past 12 months

90M+

projects started on Thumbtack

13M

5-star reviews

$3.2B

valuation (as of June 2021)
Perks & Benefits

Supporting you at work and beyond

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In addition to our virtual-first model, we offer:

Paid time off

Recharge with PTO, in addition to 20 company-wide holidays each year, including a week-long end-of-year shutdown.

Remote work stipend and reimbursements

$1,000 USD/$1,400 CAD annual stipend for professional development, self care, office set-up and more. We also provide cell phone and Wi-Fi reimbursements.

Support for parents and caregivers

All parents receive up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and birthing parents receive 8 additional weeks, for a total of 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave (US & CAN).

Family formation benefits

$30,000 USD/CAD lifetime max reimbursement for family planning.

Mental health and financial coaching

12 coaching sessions and 12 therapy sessions for yourself and your dependents. We also offer one-on-one financial guidance from a financial wellness provider.

Thumbtack Bucks

$1,800 USD/CAD annual stipend to book a pro on Thumbtack for virtual or in-person services -- anything from home care services to planning a child's birthday party and beyond.