Why are we building Urban Company?

The local and home services industry is very fragmented and unorganized. Prior to Urban Company, hiring a plumber, beautician, yoga trainer, math tutor etc. was a painful process. There were no standards, no concept of trust, pricing inefficiencies etc. In a nutshell, the industry was shackled in the “yellow pages” era, and had seen no fundamental innovation for far too long.

The Urban Company team is young and passionate, and we see a massive disruption opportunity in his industry. By leveraging technology, and a set of simple yet powerful processes, we wish to build a platform that can organize the world of services - and bring them to your finger-tips. We believe there is immense value (akin to serendipity) in bringing together customers and professionals looking for each other. In the process, we hope to impact the lives of millions of service entrepreneurs, and transform service commerce they way Amazon transformed product commerce.

Job Responsibilities

• Working on complex architectural problems
• Think about abstractions, systems and services and write high quality code
• Have an understanding of loopholes in current systems/architecture which can potential break in future and push towards solving them with other stakeholders
• Think through complex architecture to build robust platforms to serve together all the categories and flows, solve for scale and work on internally build services to cater to our growing needs

Job Requirements

• Prior experience of creating complex systems in the past.
• Ability to build scalable, sustainable, reliable and secure products based on past experience and leading teams and projects by themselves
• Ability to bring new practices, architectural choices and new initiatives onto the table to make overall tech stack more robust
• 5-8 years of experience the industry solving complex problems from scratch and have graduate/post-graduate degree from top-tier universities
• History and familiarity with server side architecture based on APIs, databases, infrastructure and systems.
• Ability to own the technical road map for systems/components

What you can expect?

• A phenomenal work environment, with massive ownership and growth opportunities
• A high performance, high velocity environment at the cutting edge of growth
• Strong ownership expectation and freedom to fail
• Quick iterations and deployments – fail-fast attitude
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies.
• Massive, and direct impact of the work you do on lives of people