Staff Front-End Engineer, Application Platform

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Taskrabbit

Compensation

$150,000 - $200,000/year

New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States

Hybrid

Posted April 10, 2026

Job Description

About Taskrabbit:

Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more.

At Taskrabbit, we want to transform lives one task at a time. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.

Taskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In — Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed!

This role operates on a hybrid schedule requiring two days of in-office collaboration per week. The position can be based in either our San Francisco office or our new New York City office (opening March 2026).

About the Role:

The Application Platform team is responsible for the Taskrabbit platform in regards to identifying opportunities for improvement in architecture, tooling, processes, and more... We’re the leading edge of front-end development at Taskrabbit, the pit crew helping engineers stay on track and move faster all while modernizing our platform! Our near-term focus is modernizing the front-end, including development of a robust design system and new front-end leveraging Next.js. In addition we’re improving content management efficiency and flexibility via headless CMS technologies.

As a Staff Engineer, you will help lead a team that designs, builds, evolves, and maintains the foundational ecosystem that powers Taskrabbit web. Your decisions will have a significant and highly visible impact on engineering productivity and the direction of our product. There is so much opportunity to leave your mark and help us make our marketplace more reliable, powerful, and scalable than it has ever been!

Join us in transforming lives, one task at a time.

What You’ll Work On:

Build the next generation of Taskrabbit’s web front-end
Propose and drive improvements to performance, reliability, and ease of development
Improve developer tooling and processes for product-oriented engineering teams
Guide other engineers on best practices for designing and implementing features
Work with Engineering and Product leadership to develop a unified approach to engineering at Taskrabbit
Advise senior leadership team on current state of platform and future possibilities

Your core skills:

8+ years of experience developing modern web applications
Extensive experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, and Next.js
Production level experience with industry standard AI tooling, including usage of AI agent workflows in development
Experience building API-driven applications
Experience with Jest, Playwright, and other testing tools
Experience with modern frontend web development tools (e.g. NPM, Babel, ESLint, Webpack)
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized applications
Exceptionally strong technical design and architecture skills
Passion for mentoring other engineers
Enjoy optimizing performance and developer experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to explain complex technical subjects in simple terms
Experience breaking down large tasks into easily understood and achievable iterations
Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. agile processes, technical design documentation, unit and integration testing, code reviews)