Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Brand Platform - LTK USA
Dallas, TX
About the Job
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: Sr. Software Engineer | Brand Platform
Location: US-Remote #LI-Remote
Reports to: Engineering Manager
About the role:
Join the LTK Family! We are searching for a senior level software engineer to work on opportunities to enhance and streamline our user experiences. By prioritizing efficiency and simplicity, you will aim to create intuitive, efficient, and delightful user interactions. You will be dedicated to optimizing aspects of the user journey, ensuring that our products exceed user expectations. You will be working with other teams within and outside org, PMs and other stakeholders to understand usage of third party software and how best to integrate and streamline the user flow and experience. You will be responsible for conducting and coordinating software development activities throughout the product life cycle within an Agile Development environment.
The ideal Senior Software Engineer for this space will be organized, productive, and hungry for impact. You will have strong experience in building scalable systems that anticipate significant growth across multiple dimensions. You'll be inventive, and have a pragmatic and iterative approach to delivering high quality software. You'll ruthlessly prioritize accomplishing the highest impact deliverables first, and provide valuable guidance to the engineering manager on the direction of the team's infrastructure. You will proactively establish lines of communication across the teams and business units, and draw on them to make the team successful.
How you will make an impact:
- Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
- Write very high-quality, well-tested code that is robust and easy to maintain.
- Take ownership of projects and drive them to completion.
- Write high quality tests.
- Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
- Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
- Conduct constructive peer design/code reviews.
- Work with distributed teams across different time zones.
- Technical subject matter expert who mentors fellow engineers, demonstrates technical experience and leads teams in solving challenging problems.
What you will bring to LTK
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 6+ years of software development experience.
- Good understanding of system design, data structure and algorithms.
- 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 (Python, Java, etc).
- Relational Database experience such as MySql
- Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
- Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
- Experience building integrations with third party tools (HubSpot, Stripe etc.)
- Experience writing tests (unit, integration, E2E).
- 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.
Nice to have:
- Strong in at least one scripting language
- Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
- Experience with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana
- Knowledge of retail domain and affiliated marketing
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