Senior Software Engineer

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 | Content and Discovery
Location: US-Remote #LI-Remote

About the role

Join our Content and Discovery team and help us build experiences that allow creators to grow and foster their community of followers and shoppers at LTK. Work with a team of highly motivated and fast-moving professionals focused on growing our skills, innovative technology, and our apps. You will focus on building on ways our consumers find and interact with LTK creators. You will establish new practices in delivering rankings and recommendations that consumers, creators, and brands can leverage.  

Our platform currently empowers over 7,000 brands across the globe to engage with their desired audience through our network of over 200,000 influencers. We are looking for talented senior developers passionate about tackling challenging features and interesting problems at scale.

How you will make an impact

• Architecting and developing scalable customer facing platforms and products. 
• Building enterprise level system integrations.
• Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems in an organized and documented fashion.
• Write very high-quality code that is robust and easy to maintain with tests.
• Take ownership of projects and drive them.
• Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
• Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
• Conduct 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

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Degree: A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred, although relevant work experience can sometimes compensate for formal education.
• History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
• Experience writing services in Golang (preferred), Python, Java or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience with EMR, Redshift, S3, Glue ETL (Scala), Athena
• Experience with eCommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce.
• Experience designing or building cart and checkout systems.
• Knowledge of domain-driven design. #LI-JF

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

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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 $5 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 8,000 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. 

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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