Role Description 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. The Developer Experience (DX) team at Thumbtack is focused on making engineering fast, reliable, and delightful. We tackle hard problems collaboratively, grounded in strong values of ownership and transparency. As a DX team member, you’ll partner closely with engineers company-wide to identify pain points, design pragmatic solutions, and drive impactful improvements that elevate our entire engineering organization. The challenge includes: - Tackling important and complex challenges in modern software development. - Introducing GenAI tooling into a hybrid local/cloud development environment. - Streamlining the designer–developer feedback loop for rapid prototyping and faster iteration. - Building foundations for measuring developer productivity across diverse workflows. What you’ll do: - Own the realization of the company’s charter across key infrastructure components – build systems, CI/CD, test infra, observability and dev/test environments. - Optimize performance, improve usability and simplify configuration of developer workflows throughout the development pipeline to production. - Work closely with engineers across the entire organization – spanning iOS, Android, web and backend – to identify pain points and gaps in systems and tools, and iterate with them on delivering solutions. - Explore best-in-class and cutting-edge technologies in the industry, evaluate relevance to Thumbtack, and drive adoption of impactful technologies at the company. - Drive engineering projects to completion, with a tenacious focus on the developer impact of those projects. - Solve tough technical problems at any level of the stack, and be persistent in getting to the solution. Qualifications - Minimum of 4+ years of industry experience in software engineering. - Fluent in at least one major programming language and able to switch between multiple languages and frameworks. - Experience with Go, Scala, PHP, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Swift, and Kotlin. - Knowledge of writing high quality, maintainable, testable, reliable and performant code. - Experience working on a developer infrastructure team or contributing to related open source projects. - Ability to break down complex problems rigorously and understand necessary tradeoffs. - Deep care for developer infrastructure and consistent improvements to the developer ecosystem. - Curiosity, data-driven mindset, critical thinking, and a focus on delivering value. Requirements - Experience in software engineering with a focus on developer experience. - Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers across various platforms. - Strong problem-solving skills across front-end, back-end, or infrastructure work. Benefits - Competitive salary based on location and experience. - Equal opportunity workplace with a commitment to diversity. - Support for individuals with disabilities and reasonable accommodations during the application process.

• Own developer activation end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces • Drive adoption metrics • Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs • Partner directly with Product and Engineering • Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation • Carry keynotes and technical presentations • Represent developers internally

• Own developer activation end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, wallets, and emerging agent interfaces • Drive adoption metrics that matter: API usage, SDK installs, production integrations, GitHub engagement, and agent retrievals • Build quickstarts, reference implementations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers, and developer tooling that make Payward easy to integrate with • Partner directly with Product and Engineering to ensure every launch is developer-ready and agent-friendly on day one • Help define how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and interact with Payward infrastructure • Create technical narratives, launch content, demos, and documentation that establish Payward as a leading developer platform • Carry keynotes, live demos, and technical presentations at industry events and developer conferences • Represent developers internally by identifying friction, surfacing ecosystem needs, and influencing product direction • Help build the long-term DNA, processes, and culture of a world-class Developer & Agent Interface organization

Developer Experience Engineer Location: Austin Location Austin Employment Type Full time Location Type Hybrid Department Engineering Department: Engineering Job Description: Developer Experience Engineer – NODA AI Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid — minimum 3 days/week on-site preferred) Travel: 10% or less Clearance: U.S. Citizen with the ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance (sponsorship available) About NODA NODA is a veteran-owned, venture-backed technology company transforming how unmanned systems collaborate in complex, mission-critical environments. Our distributed orchestration platform enables autonomous coordination of heterogeneous unmanned systems across air, sea, land, and space with vital applications in defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors. Developer Experience at NODA is not a support function — it is a force multiplier. We build the internal tooling, build systems, release automation, SDK workflows, and self-service developer surfaces that allow engineers to move from idea to validated artifact quickly and reliably. The Role As a Developer Experience Engineer, you will own the engineering systems that make NODA developers productive. You will improve the full developer lifecycle: local development, GitHub workflows, CI/CD, build optimization, test feedback, release automation, SDK packaging, documentation, and first-run experience. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who treats developer productivity as a systems problem. You will own the path from: git push → validated build → packaged SDK → usable developer workflow You will work closely with autonomy, simulation, platform, and field engineering teams to reduce friction and create fast, reliable, and reproducible workflows for both connected and constrained deployment environments. Key Responsibilities - Own GitHub-based engineering workflows, including PR validation, CI triggers, quality gates, and release automation. - Improve engineering feedback loops, build reliability, and deployment confidence across local and CI environments. - Own the developer-facing SDK and CLI experience, including install flow, CLI ergonomics, Python package usability, examples, quickstarts, and release quality. - Eliminate workflow friction and reduce dependency on tribal knowledge through automation and self-service tooling. - Build and maintain reproducible, secure, and air-gapped developer and release workflows. - Use metrics and developer feedback to continuously improve engineering workflows and platform adoption. - Partner across autonomy, simulation, systems, and field engineering teams to ensure workflows reflect real operational needs. Required Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in Developer Experience, platform engineering, build/release engineering, infrastructure engineering, or software engineering focused on internal tools. - Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and automated release workflows. - Experience designing and optimizing build, test, and release pipelines. - Strong Python skills for tooling, automation, SDKs, or packaging. - Experience owning SDKs, CLIs, or developer-facing platforms. - Strong systems debugging skills across code, infrastructure, CI, packaging, and developer environments. - Experience with containers and reproducible development environments. - U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with air-gapped, classified, CUI, or restricted-network deployment patterns. - Experience supporting autonomy, robotics, simulation, edge, embedded, or defense-adjacent software workflows. - Experience owning SDKs, CLIs, Python packages, or developer-facing platforms. - Experience with Python packaging and distribution, including PyPI, containers, or offline bundles. - Experience with cloud-backed build infrastructure, including AWS EC2, self-hosted runners, or ephemeral environments. - Experience improving build performance in complex multi-language or systems-heavy codebases. - Familiarity with distributed messaging systems such as Zenoh, DDS, MQTT, or similar. Skills & Attributes - Product-minded: treats developers as users and internal platforms as products. - Systems-oriented: understands the full path from local development to release artifact. - Pragmatic builder: improves workflows without adding unnecessary process. - High ownership: identifies bottlenecks, fixes them, and measures the result. - Developer empathy: understands friction because they have built and shipped software themselves. - Clear communicator: can document workflows, explain tradeoffs, and drive adoption across engineering teams. - Security-aware: understands the requirements of defense and controlled deployment environments. - AI-fluent: uses AI tools pragmatically to accelerate engineering workflows while maintaining strong engineering judgment and verification discipline. What We Offer - Hybrid work environment - Competitive compensation - Flexible PTO + federal holidays - 401(k) - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits - Free One Medical membership Growth Path at NODA Developer Experience Engineer → Senior Developer Experience Engineer → Staff Engineer, Developer Platform → Principal Engineer, Developer Platform We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.