Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Title : Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Brand Platform

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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.

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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• System Design : Responsible for architecting scalable, efficient, and reliable systems that meet the organization’s needs.
• 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.
• Work Management / Communication : Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively.

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.
• Experience working in a containerized environment (preferably Docker).
• Experience writing services in Golang or another compiled language (C++, Java, etc).
• Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
• Experience integrating 3rd party APIs (REST, OAuth).
• Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
• Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.
• Experience with big data.
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana.
• 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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