Native App Developer (6 Month Contract) - Remote

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

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. Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete urgent repairs, seasonal maintenance and bigger improvements. We help homeowners know which projects to do, when to do them and who to hire from our growing community of 300,000 local service businesses.

If making an impact inspires you, join us. Imagine what we’ll build together.

About

the Lifecycle Marketing Engineering 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

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s that deepen engagement and drive growth. The Challenge Your work will directly support our 2026 strategy to create a cohesive “push-to-app”

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, scaling personalized landing pages, expanding in-app embedded messaging through Iterable, and improving the opt-in

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for push notifications. What youll 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

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s. 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

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s. Contribute technical insight to experimentation, testing, and measurement frameworks. In order to be successful, you must bring 4–6 years of

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developing and maintaining production Android and iOS apps (Kotlin and Swift). Proven

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integrating third-party SDKs and marketing platforms (e.g., Iterable, Firebase, Braze, Segment).

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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

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. Expected salary ranges Rate: 0–10 per hour, depending on

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Benefits

This position is not eligible for Thumbtack

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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.