Senior Software Engineer, Backend

LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a huge opportunity ahead of us and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate and disrupt an industry. 

We empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry — a game changer when it comes to career growth.

Title: Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Brand Platform 

Location: Remote

LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a huge opportunity ahead of us and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate and disrupt an industry.  We empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry — a game changer when it comes to career growth.

About you:

You're looking for a career where you'll be able to build, to deliver, and to impress. You look at problems holistically, and want to work on projects where you are implementing solutions to real problems that require creative solutions and deep understanding of the problem space. You challenge yourself and your team to constantly come up with simpler and better solutions to complex problems. You have expertise in building large-scale web applications and systems. You love challenges and working on complex customer facing projects. You recognize the importance of aligning technical decisions with the business objectives and can effectively communicate with stakeholders. 

About us together:

We're going to change the way that Creators collaborate with Brands to maximize their economic success. Along the way, we're going to face seemingly impossible problems. We're going to argue about how to solve them, and we'll work together to find a solution that is superior to each of the proposals we came in with. We'll make tough decisions, but we'll all understand why. We'll be the dream team.

The ideal Senior Backend Engineer for this role will have a strong programming and problem-solving background. You primarily work in the backend with Go, or you have demonstrated experience in other languages. Your deep understanding of software development principles and best practices empowers you to deliver high-quality solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you have the knowledge and expertise to make significant and independent contributions to the team. You serve as a resource to unblock and enable the entire team, and you excel at scoping and staging work into well-defined epics to avoid monolithic deliverables. Your curiosity and dedication to excellence drive you to constantly research and lead the adoption of new systems and technologies. As a member of an agile scrum team, you actively think about process improvements and contribute to discussions to enhance team efficiency. You adjust well to shifting priorities and consistently push the team forward. With a strong sense of ownership, you take complete responsibility for your area, team, and services.


Some problem spaces we'll be working on:

SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATIONS - Integrating social media performance data from various platforms is becoming increasingly essential in the realm of Creator marketing. This offers exciting challenges and opportunities for LTK. Consolidating data across popular social media platforms requires designing robust and scalable systems that can handle large volumes of data. Ensuring data accuracy and reliability becomes crucial for analysis and reporting of social media performance metrics. We will develop innovative solutions, leveraging API integrations and data processing techniques, to extract insights from the integrated data that can enhance collaborations between Creators and Brands on our platform. This places us at the forefront of social media performance analytics, contributing to the evolving landscape of Creator marketing and driving impactful results for clients.

INFRASTRUCTURE - the need for data in LTK is not limited to the Brand Platform, so this candidate will need to guide us as we develop infrastructure that is extensible to support the entire company. Our development will primarily be focused on our needs, but will be done in such a way that other teams across LTK can easily create plug-ins or adaptors to safely ingest any form of structured data. Some of the existing products that our infrastructure must support are our Brand reporting and Marketplace products. We’ll not stop there as our infrastructure must enable our teams to featurize our data and, from there, create ML models that are predictive of the Brand and Creator goals.

DATA - we need to become great with data, starting with integrations with all Social Media and Influencer platforms, but quickly extending to satisfy our thirst for data. We’ll look for new ways to interpret the data that we have, on platform and that we ingest from third parties, with an aim to tease out new learnings that differentiate LTK from our competitors. We’ll want to provide real value to Brands and Creators alike and we believe that we’ll get there by excelling with data. We know that we need to develop new muscles with Machine Learning and AI. We'll know when we’re done when Brand performance uncertainty is a distant memory.

How you will make an impact

• Technical Expertise: Possess deep knowledge and proficiency in your primary language, whether it’s Go or another language, enabling you to provide guidance, mentorship, and support to junior team members and to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. Contribute to the development of high-quality software solutions, solve complex technical challenges, and make informed decisions that drive positive outcomes for the organization.

• Problem Solving: Excel at analyzing and dissecting complex problems, identifying the root causes, devising effective solutions, and proactively identifying potential problems and addressing them. 
• Innovation: Track record of introducing new technologies, tools, or practices that enhance engineering efficiency, productivity, and quality. Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, research and lead the adoption of new systems and technologies, and seek opportunities to enhance existing processes and practices. 
• System Design: Responsible for architecting scalable, efficient, and reliable systems that meet the organization’s needs. Make informed decisions regarding technology selection, infrastructure deployment, and overall architecture. 
• Problem Ownership: Willingness to take ownership of complex issues, drive problem resolution, and act as a technical leader in crisis situations in your team.

What you will bring to LTK

Leadership:

• Ability to lead by example and inspire team members.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring and providing guidance to junior team members.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and guide the technical direction of the team.

Work Management/Communication:

• Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Proven track record in delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications: 

•  8+ years of software development experience in the backend.
•  History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
•  Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
•  Experience working in a containerized environment (preferably Docker).
•  Experience writing services in Golang or compiled language (C++, Java, etc).
•  Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
•  Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
•  Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
•  Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
•  Ability to model and conceptualize the integrations across complex systems.
•  Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in big data.
• Experience in asynchronous eventing patterns
• Relational Database experience such as MySql 
•  Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana
• Expertise in working with various data storage technologies, including relational databases, NoSQL databases (like Hadoop HDFS, Apache Cassandra), and columnar databases.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and related technologies.
• Understanding of machine learning and data analytics concepts.
• Familiarity with agile methods and familiarity with Scrum or Kanban frameworks.

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What we offer

• The opportunity to be part of the leading global company in creator commerce
• A remote-first, productivity-first environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family
• 401(k) with LTK company matching
• Medical Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance
• Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity Leave
• Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO

About LTK

Founded in 2011, LTK is the global technology platform purpose-built to empower lifestyle creators to monetize their content. The full-service platform connects brands, creators, and shoppers with a world-class shopping app and trusted tools and technology that make content instantly shoppable. Today, premium lifestyle creators in 160+ countries drive more than $4 billion+ in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 40 million consumers turn to LTK Shops in the LTK shopping platform each month to find inspiration and instantly shop the styles recommended by their favorite creators. More than 7,000 retailers and 1M brands partner with LTK to gain access to its global creator network for content that converts against performance-driven, cross-channel KPIs. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and currently operates on five continents.

Our mission

To empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.

Our values

• Here to win
• Commit to the journey
• Work well

Commitment to diversity

LTK believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental obligations that strengthen our team. We employ a diverse, multi-disciplinary team to build a meaningful company and culture. 

For US-Based Roles:  We are not offering new sponsorships opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H-1B;  authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.

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LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #LI-Remote