Thumbtack Engineering

Thumbtack | https://thumbtack.com | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help. We are a friendly, ambitious team of ~70 engineers in a bright SoMa office with daily home-cooked food, backed by Sequoia and Google Capital. We're looking for engineers and SREs interested in working with Go, Scala/Spark/Hadoop, PHP, Angular, iOS, Android, and AWS. We're also looking for data scientists interested in predictive modeling, machine learning, and experimental design and analysis. Join us! http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering Please reach out to jessica [at] thumbtack.com with any questions.

"The site, which is in an invitation-only "alpha" testing phase, is geared toward helping people ferret out the best local businesses using recommendations from friends and family." Immediately brings to mind: http://www.thumbtack.com/

Thumbtack | Software Engineer, Product Manager | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack is a local services marketplace that connects customers who need to get things done with skilled professionals who can help. We hope to fundamentally change the way customers identify and connect with local services professionals, a market estimated to be $700B in the US alone. We currently have over 260,000 paying pros per quarter on our platform and $250M in funding to enable growth. We’re currently focused on scaling our product even further. Thumbtack has had a stellar 2018; next year promises to be even bigger. Thumbtack has a strong commitment to transparency, diversity and work / life balance. Having been at a number of companies of all sizes in the Bay, I can say that the people at Thumbtack are some of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and genuinely kind that I have worked with. Both from a learning/growth perspective and an overall well-being perspective, this is one of the best places I have ever worked. We’re hiring for the following roles in SF (3+ years experience minimum): - Full Stack Engineer - Front End Engineer - iOS Engineer - Android Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Data Scientist - Product Manager - Product Designer / UX - Customer / Product Analyst Keywords: React, Redux, ES6, Go, GraphQL, Scala, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, AWS, Postgres, BigQuery, ElasticSearch, Puppet, Terraform, Python, R More job details…

Thumbtack - San Francisco, CA - ONSITE Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help. We are backed by Sequoia and Google Capital. A friendly, ambitious team of ~60 engineers in a bright SoMa office with daily home-cooked food, conference stipends, and unlimited vacation. We're looking for engineers, SREs, and data scientists interested in working with Go, Scala, machine learning, Angular, iOS, Android, full-stack, Hadoop, and AWS. Join us! http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering Reach out to (glen@)thumbtack.com for any questions.

Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help. We are backed by Sequoia and Google Capital. Offices in SoMa with daily home-cooked food and a friendly, ambitious team of 30 engineers. We're looking for expertise in Go, Python, data science (ML and NLP), mobile, and web. Current projects: * Hadoop/Spark data research platform * Two-sided search and discovery system to connect the marketplace * Scaling of core systems on AWS * Building an Android app to empower service professionals to be more efficient For more information: http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering Also, feel free to email me (chris at) with any questions!

Might this compete with Thumbtack [1]? That's the comparable startup that comes to mind. [1] http://www.thumbtack.com/

This is a local services marketplace, not software, but it has good marketing. http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/20/service-marketplace-thumbtack-raises-… http://www.thumbtack.com/

I would say we have a lot of evidence that great candidates enjoyed doing our challenges, but certainly it isn't for everybody. You are free to not do the challenges. As for your secondary point about the quality of our team, I encourage you to read our engineering blog (http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/) and look at some of our open source contributions (https://github.com/thumbtack). I think you will find more than enough material there to see what our engineering team is all about.

There are definitely many startups in SF whose teams all live in the same house together, and work there, who seem to be doing just fine. Some (like http://thumbtack.com) even have an in-house chef and other perks. In my opinion, early-stage startups should live together. Yeah, sure, it'd be nice to have more of a distinction between home and work, but honestly 90% of your day in an early-stage startup is work. However, an office is definitely preferred during the later stages, which is not to say that a house is inappropriate. Key milestones which might be a good sign for getting an office space: - Not even two houses could hold all team members - You're on your third hiring wave (i.e. none of the new hires are considered part of the core, or even secondary, team) - Your advisors tell you to get a house - Increasing tension among workers

Nice clean design. How does your site compare to Yext and compete with what they're doing? Also, how did you obtain that domain? http://www.thumbtack.com

Thumbtack - San Francisco Thumbtack helps people get their person projects accomplished by introducing them to local service professionals. We can help you refurnish your kitchen, hire a wedding photographer, and even a bartender for a party you are throwing. We work hard to empower small businesses to grow and be successful. Some of our core values are 1) to help locally, scale globally, 2) to obsess over our customers, and 3) to improve relentlessly. To that effect, our biggest markets are actually in other cities such as Los Angelos and New York, and we offer employees a stipend for learning materials and conferences to encourage personal growth inside and outside of the office. Our engineering team is now 18 people working in an office of about 70 total employees. We eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and play board games. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy. We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise: * Front-end * Back-end * Site reliability / DevOps * Analytics and big data * Statistics * Data science * Android http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/08/20/thumbtack-local-service… H1-B full time employees and summer interns are welcome to apply. Contact richard @ thumbtack.com for more…

Thumbtack - San Francisco Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives by introducing them to qualified and available professionals. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your kid how to play the piano. We work hard to empower small business owners nationwide to grow their businesses. Thumbtack's core values are 1) help locally, scale globally, 2) obsess over our customers, and 3) improve relentlessly. We look for people who have raw talent and drive, work well with others, are motivated to improve, and are personable and intellectually curious. Our engineering team is a lean 15 people, and supports the larger Thumbtack team of 500. We work in a beautiful office in SoMa, eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and provide annual stipends for self-improvement. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy. We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise: * Front-end * Back-end * Site reliability / DevOps * Analytics and big data * Statistics * Data science * Android * iOS http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/08/20/thumbtack-local-service… H1-B and interns welcome Please contact kthomas @ thumbtack for more information.

Thumbtack - San Francisco (H1-B and interns welcome) Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your kid how to play the piano. We are a two-sided marketplace that connects buyers and sellers in these service industries. We work hard to empower small business owners nationwide to grow their businesses. Thumbtack's core values are 1) help locally, scale globally, 2) obsess over our customers, and 3) improve relentlessly. We look for people who have raw talent and drive, work well with others, are motivated to improve, and are personable and intellectually curious. Our engineering team is a lean 14 people, and supports the larger Thumbtack team of 500. We work in a beautiful office in SoMa, eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and provide annual stipends for self-improvement. We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy. We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise: * Front-end * Back-end * Site reliability / DevOps * Analytics and big data * Statistics * Data science * Android *…

These are great! Thank you Evan. Your sample size calculator is wonderful and beats the hell out of the 90s tool I've been using which cautions me that my browser must support "JavaScript" to use it :) As an alternative to the Chi-squared calculator, people might want to check out ABBA, a tool I wrote here at Thumbtack: http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/ It shares the visual component and the linkability, two great features you've nailed. It lacks the live updating and the slider, which is really cool and something I've wanted to add to ABBA for a long time. On the other hand, it supports multiple groups compared against the baseline simultaneously and incorporates a correction for multiple testing into its p-values and confidence intervals, which can be handy. It also uses different mathematics under the hood, but that's not going to be a concern for most users. Glad to see another step towards a more statistically-aware world!

Like http://thumbtack.com?

This is hyper-locale specific, but the median per square foot construction cost in the US is under $150: * https://www.newhomesource.com/guide/articles/cost-to-build-house-per-s… Though a more realistic number, if one wants something a bit "nicer" may be up to $250: * https://www.thumbtack.com/p/home-building-cost-by-sqft In more (high-demand) urban areas, the price of the dirt may dwarf the price of the structure. When people say they "bought a home for $x", what's really happening is that they bought the land for $y and the structure for $z. If you look at homeowner's insurance, the coverage for rebuilding is $z and not $x.

I would say most of the middle class doesn't have the ability to legally defend themselves either. They might be able to, but it's financially catastrophic. You can pay a lawyer to plea for you, but if it goes to trial, it could be in the 10s of thousands. It all depends on how long the prosecutor can draw out the trial. Also keep in mind while this is going on, you've probably been fired, so you don't have any income to pay for it, so it depends on how much you have saved. (You probably won't get a loan with no job). https://www.thumbtack.com/p/criminal-defense-attorney-cost

I'm sorry, but I'm just not buying into this business model. Trying to do everything at once and doing nothing well at all. Just look at their services directory: http://www.thumbtack.com/more-services My friends who are DJ's and hair stylists hate these kinds of services with a passion. People like to deal with people directly and operate on referrals in most of these industries.

Interestingly enough: http://www.thumbtack.com/ut/sandy/handyman/ninja-for-hire wish he was in UK :P would be fun

It's a bit confusing that this has the same name as another (pretty well known) a/b test calculator: http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/

But with the opening rate, there is a totally different story: http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/#Sunday=157%2C389&Tuesday=175%2…

We've written a few posts on our blog about our A/B testing framework. Our event tracking system: http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/building-our-own-tracking-engine-… ABBA, our tool for analyzing the results: http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/gambling-with-the-devil-ab-tests-… A script for using ABBA with Mixpanel: http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering/ab-testing-with-mixpanel/

I made a bookmarklet for easily calculating statistical significance, specifically for this use case. After enabling the bookmarklet, you click the numbers you need and then it sends it to an A/B testing calculator hosted by the folks who made ABBA Project: https://github.com/yahelc/ABBA-bookmarklet Sends to here: http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/

Thumbtack is a marketplace for services of all kinds such as home improvement, event services, instruction, etc. We have a number of senior services as well -- in home care, personal assistants, drivers, etc. You can view our senior services here: http://www.thumbtack.com/browse/family/seniors/ You can email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

on redbeacon, the only thing you as a consumer can do is put in a wanted ad. you can do this on thumbtack--see: http://www.thumbtack.com/postwanted. what you can't do on redbeacon is browse service providers' profiles. redbeacon seems to want to segregate the two sides so that they can arbitrage the leads, but it leads to an incomplete user experience. on thumbtack you can post a wanted ad or browse an available service and book people directly.

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