Engineer, Search

Remote (Canada & Bulgaria)

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.

Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do. 

We are seeking a collaborative and self-driven Engineer, Search to join our rapidly growing team and make a significant impact.

As an Engineer, Search on the Search & Monitoring Team, you will collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure our customers have access to high-quality content that meets their expectations. You'll contribute to large-scale technical projects involving extensive data volumes, support data pipelines and features leveraging ElasticSearch and Kafka, and play a key role in shaping our engineering culture and processes.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Vue, and Webpack. Our technology team prioritizes scalability, quality, efficient delivery, and an intuitive customer experience. We release updates frequently while maintaining a strong work-life balance.

To be set up for success in this role, you’ll need to have:

  • 3+ years total professional experience as a software engineer
  • Proficiency with Python or a similar language
  • Proficiency with Django or a similar framework
  • Experience with ElasticSearch or an equivalent search engine

If any of the below also describe you, this could be an exciting opportunity:

  • Experience with Kafka or other stream-processing technologies
  • Experience with MySQL or Postgres
  • Experience with Celery
  • Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data
  • Interest in journalism, news, media or social media

In addition, we’re always looking for candidates who:

  • Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team members
  • Exhibit a willingness to learn in areas where they have less experience with our tech stack
  • Take pride in the quality of their code. (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.)
  • Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys
  • Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs
  • Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition

Interview Overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

  • 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
  • A one hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
  • Take-home coding assignment (2-4 hours max)
  • Peer interviews, including a 30 min code review discussion
  • Final call(s) with executive team member(s)  

Salary

The starting salary for this role is between $140,000 - $165,000 CAD, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.

Why Muck Rack?

Remote Work, Forever 

  • Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup
  • Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership
  • Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions)

Transparent & Fair Compensation 

  • Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S.
  • Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment
  • Standardized bonus or commission structure
  • 401(k) with employer contributions
  • Equity opportunities

Health & Wellness

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents
  • 100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans
  • 24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program
  • Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits
  • Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription

Time Off & Family Benefits

  •  4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and mental health days
  • 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days
  • Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave

Learning and Development

  • Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion
  • Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training
  • Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly
  • 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development

Inclusive, Customer-First Culture

  • Commitment to equity and valuing diverse perspectives
  • Agile, founder-led company focused on collaboration and innovation
  • Trusted by 3,000+ companies worldwide

Note: Benefits and compensation reflect offerings for U.S.-based employees. Support is provided for employees in other locations, in compliance with local laws and regulations.

While we are a fully distributed team, we do have limitations on where we can hire and maintain a list of acceptable working locations based on job function. If we are unable to hire in your current location for the role for which you applied, you will be notified via email. While we enjoy many benefits as a permanently distributed and remote company, we cannot always support relocation or extended travel and have guidelines in place to ensure compliant work away from your designated permanent residence.

 
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