Lead Full Stack Developer (Analytics)

Later is founded on two success stories that began in 2014: Mavrck, the industry-leading influencer marketing solution (now Later Influence™), and Later, the best social media management platform (now Later Social™) and first-to-market link in bio tool.

We’re trusted by the top social platforms, with partnerships and integrations with Meta, TikTok, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.

In 2024, Mavrck and Later officially joined together as one unified business, with a shared vision: to enable the world to make a living with their creativity. We’re now on a mission to build the world’s first Social Revenue Platform.

Later will be the first inclusive platform where social media managers, influencer managers, and creators can come together to collaborate on content. We enable marketers to create high-performing content and engage in authentic collaborations with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI. 

As a trusted partner and go-to source for social media advice, we help create an engaged community for reliable performance and repeatable growth.

About this position:

As a Technical Lead at Later, you will split your time between hands-on technical work and people management for a small team of developers. Your primary focus will be technical planning, resource allocation, project delivery, and mentorship. Ideal candidates have proven themselves capable as software developers and eager to learn about a career in technical people management.

At this level, you’ll use your mastery of software development fundamentals to maintain and enhance our platform and to help your team members set and achieve their career growth objectives. This role is a mix of hands on coding and people leadership. You’ll deeply understand your product area(s) and the problems your team faces and propose robust solutions.

About the Analytics Team: 

The Analytics team is focused on social media analytics, brand campaign reports, and calculating ROI, ensuring customers get the insights they need to measure their social media and campaign performance. The team also manages the storage of analytics data and is responsible for the amalgamation of data across platforms.

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with your team’s product manager, product designer, and QA developer throughout the software development life cycle.
• Collaborate with product management and design to refine future projects and estimate the complexity and feasibility of alternative approaches.
• Understand your team’s growth objectives, strengths, and improvement areas to staff projects optimally.
• Collaborate with QA to ship reliable features and fixes.
• Champion software development best practices, and coach developers to learn them.
• Write and review technical designs. Collaborate with other teams’ technical leads to manage dependencies.
• Write clean code that’s easy to read, efficient, scalable, secure, and tested.
• Use tools like DataDog to monitor performance of your product area(s) to proactively respond to problems and propose improvements.
• Understand our CI/CD process to ship code and database migrations.
• Mentor your team members:
• Schedule recurring 1-on-1 meetings.
• Collaboratively define growth objectives.
• Empower your team members to achieve them.
• Host biannual performance reviews.

We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career. If you identify with any of the following, we encourage you to apply!

• 5 + years of experience as a full-stack software developer building distributed applications hosted by AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
• 2 + years of experience as a senior software developer proposing, implementing, and delivering projects you designed.
• 1 + years experience leading a team of 3 or more developers.
• You’re proficient using TypeScript to develop frontend and backend applications. We strongly prefer experience using React, Express.js, Node.js, and NestJS. We also prefer some but don’t require any experience using Java, Kotlin, or Ruby on Rails to develop backend apps.
• You’re proficient using SQL to access and store data. We prefer experience using NoSQL databases too, though we only require knowledge of their differences and the ability to articulate them in a technical design.
• Experience building large data models and consuming data into Google Cloud BigQuery OR AWS Redshift.
• You intuitively collaborate effectively. You’re accountable, adaptable, growth-oriented, and responsive even in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• You’re intrinsically motivated to continuously improve and feel fulfillment coaching others too.

Our approach to compensation:

We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.

Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.

To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted. 

Additionally, all permanent team members are granted stock options and are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.

Salary Range:  $158,000 - $180,000 CAD

Some perks of being on our team:

• Flexible PTO: We want you to take the time off when you want or need to recharge! 
• Learning & Development: We provide growth opportunities through training, coaching, mentorship programs, and workshops. 
• Parental benefits: We offer parental leave top-ups, family forming support, and a life-transitions program to ensure you and your family are well supported when returning to work.
• Healthcare: Our comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental, vision, STD & LTD, 401k contribution plans (US-based employees), and an Employee and Family Assistance Program to support the well-being of you and your family.
• Employee Resource Groups: Belonging is an important part of doing your best work. These ERGs provide support and community for employees.

*Co-op team members are not eligible for company benefits.

Where we work

We hire into our hub cities of Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; Toronto, ON. We also have team members based remotely for select positions. We post our positions in the hub location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located. 

Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility

We value diversity of thought; we are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.

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