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About the Team

At Thumbtack, we help people confidently care for their homes. Millions of customers use our app to connect with skilled local professionals. Working with our Lifecycle Marketing Engineering team, you’ll help us build smarter, more personalized in-app experiences that deepen engagement and drive growth.

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced Native App Developer (contract) to help implement key Lifecycle Marketing features that expand in-app communication, personalization, and conversion. Working closely with MarTech, Lifecycle, and Platform teams, you’ll enable new mobile experiences that tie together messaging, content, and push-based engagement.

The Challenge

Your work will directly support our 2026 strategy to create a cohesive “push-to-app” experience, scaling personalized landing pages, expanding in-app embedded messaging through Iterable, and improving the opt-in experience for push notifications.

What you'll do

Implement In-App Embedded Messaging: Utilize Iterable’s Embedded Messages SDK across Android and iOS, adding new inline messaging components. Collaborate with Lifecycle Marketing to define interaction patterns and ensure smooth delivery of personalized content.
Enhance Native Landing Page Support: Expand Contentful-based templates for dynamic, personalized experiences. Enable runtime population of personalized assets, including text, imagery, and recommendations while leveraging behavioral and contextual user data.
Improve Push Opt-In Flows: Partner with Lifecycle Marketing and Product Design to implement improved opt-in and re-enablement UX. Create flexible entry points within onboarding and other flows to drive higher push subscription rates.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with backend Martech, and design teams to deliver seamless, performant user experiences. Contribute technical insight to experimentation, testing, and measurement frameworks.

In order to be successful, you must bring

4–6 years of experience developing and maintaining production Android and iOS apps (Kotlin and Swift).
Proven experience integrating third-party SDKs and marketing platforms (e.g., Iterable, Firebase, Braze, Segment).
Experience working with content management systems such as Contentful or equivalent.
Familiarity with mobile experimentation, analytics, and A/B testing tools.
Strong understanding of notification systems, push permissions, and in-app messaging UX.
Comfort collaborating with cross-functional partners in Marketing, Product, and Design.
Excellent debugging, performance optimization, and documentation skills.

Expected salary ranges

Rate: $90–$110 per hour, depending on experience
Benefits: This position is not eligible for Thumbtack benefits

Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. We also will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.

Thumbtack is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact: [email protected].

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Native App Developer (6 Month Contract)

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