Highlights
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. We’re looking for a strong backend engineer with a product mindset to join our Search & Match team, building scalable systems that power discovery, ranking, and matching.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Dallas, Texas (Remote) |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Internet Services |
| Salary | $150,000–$170,000 |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2006 |
| Website | https://www.care.com/careers-p1089.html |
Description
Company Description
Additional Information
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.
Job DescriptionWe’re looking for a strong backend engineer with a product mindset to join our Search & Match team, building scalable systems that power discovery, ranking, and matching. This role is primarily backend, though full stack experience is a big plus. You’ll use data and AI to improve relevance and outcomes for millions of users, and you’ll lead AI-driven initiatives from concept to production, owning them end to end. You’ll partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features and improve performance.
What You’ll Be Working On
- Lead AI initiatives end to end, from identifying the opportunity and designing the solution through delivery, measurement, and iteration
- Build, maintain, and enhance high-volume, scalable backend systems
- Contribute to the evolution of our platform, including breaking down monolithic components into microservices
- Partner with product managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Collaborate with internal teams to design, implement, and improve services
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Support production systems, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability
- Work with QA to ensure high-quality releases
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve system performance and developer experience
- Build systems that use data and AI to improve search relevance and matching quality
- 5–7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven experience using AI/ML in production (or applying AI tools and LLMs to real products) and driving those initiatives from start to finish
- Demonstrated ownership: comfortable taking ambiguous problems and driving them to measurable outcomes
- Strong experience with Java, Spring (Boot, MVC, Security), Kafka, Docker, SQL, and Hibernate
- Experience building backend services using microservices architecture and designing scalable, distributed systems
- Strong fundamentals in APIs, data modeling, and system design
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with caching (e.g., Elasticache) and search technologies (Solr / Elasticsearch)
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, Step Functions, CDK, KMS)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) and modern development practices
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
Nice to Have
- Full stack experience (e.g., React, TypeScript) and the ability to deliver features across the stack
- Experience with GraphQL, Kubernetes, gRPC, or modern observability tools
- Familiarity with Go or Node.js
- Experience with DynamoDB or other NoSQL solutions
Additional Information
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.
Work Environment: Hybrid Preferred out of our Dallas or Austin offices - We are in the office Monday, Wednesday & Thursday
PLEASE NOTE: At this time, Care does NOT hire in any of the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming, Vermont.
Salary Range: $150,000 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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About Company
Care is a global need without geographic or demographic boundaries. At some point, every person and every family will have care needs, be it for children, seniors, pets or even homes. Our mission is to improve the lives of families and caregivers by helping them connect in a reliable and easy way. Our solutions help families make informed decisions in one of the most important and highly considered aspects of their family life: finding and managing quality care for their loved ones. In providing families a comprehensive marketplace for care, we are also building the largest global destination for quality caregivers to find fulfilling employment and career opportunities. We strive to help our members - families and caregivers - pursue their passions and fulfill the basic human need of caring for each other.
Founder and CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo wanted to transform the way families and businesses around the world address their care needs. Care.com launched in the U.S. in 2007 and today, we are the world's largest online marketplace for finding and managing family care, with more than 30.8 million members, spanning over 20 countries.
Care.com's premise is simple: Our consumer matching solutions allow families to search for, qualify, vet, connect with, and ultimately select caregivers in a low-cost, reliable and easy way. Our platform also provides caregivers with solutions to create personal profiles, describe their unique skills and experience, and otherwise differentiate themselves in a highly fragmented marketplace.
We understand that care is an exceptionally personal matter and impacts the most important aspect of families' lives which is why we provide an array of services and resources to help families make safer and more informed hiring decisions. The Care.com Safety Center offers a comprehensive Safety Guide, which details numerous tools, resources and tips to assist families through the search and hiring process. Through third-parties, we also offer three tiers of background checks which vary in comprehensiveness.
Care.com's global footprint began to expand in 2012 when we launched in the UK and Canada, followed by the acquisition of Berlin-based Besser Betreut, the largest online care portal in Europe. In every territory in which we operate, the fundamental service remains the same but is tailored to meet the unique cultural needs of its membership.
As Care.com has grown, so has the scope of the products and services we offer. Our consumer payments solutions enable families to not only electronically pay a caregiver but also subscribe for tax preparation services through our Care.com HomePay product. We have also expanded our marketplace beyond the direct family-to-caregiver interaction. We currently serve employers by providing access to our platform to more than 600,000 employer-sponsored families, and we enable care-related businesses, such as daycare centers, nanny agencies and home care agencies, to market their services to our care-seeking families and recruit our caregiver members.