Senior Software Engineer (Ruby / Golang)

About Care.com

Care.com is a consumer tech company with heart. We’re on a mission to solve a human challenge we all face: finding great care for the ones we love. We’re moms and dads and pet parents. We have parents and grandparents, so we understand that everyone, at some point in their lives, could use a helping hand. Our culture and our products reflect that.

Care.com offers of an array of services that enable families to find, manage and pay for care and provide employment opportunities for caregivers. Our engineering organization is reimagining our tech stacks and consolidating to a single cloud native platform, so we can test 

Care.com is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a full-stack background and a front-end focus to help build and scale our platform. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who thrives in modern JavaScript frameworks (React/Next.js), backend services using Golang and Ruby, and enjoys building seamless, high-performance applications.

If you are passionate about front-end engineering but also enjoy working with scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure, this role is for you!

Work Environment: Hybrid - In office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
Office Locations: Salt Lake City, Utah | Austin & Dallas, Texas | New York NY 

What You'll Be Working On:

• Design, develop, and maintain React-based front-end applications, ensuring high performance and user-friendly experiences.
• Build and optimize Golang and Ruby backend services to support our web applications and internal tools.
• Work with Node.js, TypeScript, and server-side rendering (SSR/RSC) to enhance application performance and SEO.
• Develop and maintain APIs and microservices, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build seamless user experiences.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and monitoring tools.
• Optimize front-end and back-end performance, improving load times and responsiveness.
• Ensure security best practices are implemented across all layers of the stack.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to integrations, performance, and user experience.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends and recommend best practices for front-end and back-end development.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with a strong focus on React, Golang, and Ruby.
• Expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Next.js for front-end development.
• Strong knowledge of backend services using Golang and Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with APIs, microservices architecture, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Proficiency in server-side rendering (SSR/RSC) and performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and DevOps best practices.
• Familiarity with A/B testing, feature flags, and experimentation frameworks.
• Knowledge of security best practices, compliance standards, and scalability considerations.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across the stack.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work across business and technical teams.

Company Overview:

Available in more than 20 countries, Care.com is the world's leading platform for finding and managing high-quality family care. Care.com is designed to meet the evolving needs of today's families and caregivers, offering everything from household tax and payroll services and customized corporate benefits packages covering the care needs of working families, to innovating new ways for caregivers to be paid and obtain professional benefits. Since 2007, families have relied on Care.com's industry-leading products—from child and elder care to pet care and home care. Care.com is an IAC company (NASDAQ: IAC).

Salary Range:  140,000 to 170,000.

The base salary range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the national salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Care.com’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Care.com provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life, and disability insurance, a generous 401K employer matching program, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).

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