Staff Engineer, Commissions and Payouts

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: Staff Engineer, Commissions and Payouts

Location: US-Remote

About the role

The Commissions and Payout Engineering team is responsible for streamlining revenue financial workflows to ensure our Finance and Accounting teams can close the books with a high degree of accuracy and confidence. The systems we build need to be scalable and accurate as we handle revenue operations for LTK. Some of the projects we are focused on are building infrastructure for revenue affiliate integration, settlement, and cash reconciliation of all transactions and payments, generating invoices for our bundle partners, and revenue partner workflows. 

How you will make an impact

• Be a technical leader and core leader within the Revenue Engineering team
• Support members of a squad in delivering scalable, auditable, secure and reliable data/backend - services
• Coordinate technical projects spanning multiple squads and facilitate collaboration between engineers and product managers
• Possess a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into tech requirements
• Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate services that are responsible for processing LTK’s revenue before sending it to the ERP-system
• Mentor other engineers
• Drive good engineering practices within your team(s) and define and teach these
• Contribute to the vision and long-term strategy in your domain of expertise
• Be a department-level expert in Revenue,and serve as the go-to person for solving problems in your domain of expertise
• Provide leadership in staying up to date with the developments in relevant technologies and market trends to identify enhancements
• Evaluate external vendors and partners as needed from time to time
• Participate in the recruitment & interviewing process of engineers

What you will bring to LTK

• Strong business acumen to understand all aspects of the businesses including sales, order processing, operations/fulfillment and accounting
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, proficiency in business process modeling and redesign, requirements management
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to work effectively with business units and communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and management
• You are an experienced technical leader
• You have extensive experience in designing and building both highly reliable traditional back-end services & distributed data processing services
• You are experienced with deploying and operating services in the cloud
• You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures and architecture
• You care about quality and know the importance of shipping high-quality code
• Experience of working in a SOX-compliant environment before is a plus but not required

Technical Skills:

• 10+ years with software backend systems, architectures and infrastructure.
•  5+ years with the data architecture, data processing tools and reporting technologies.
• History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
• Proven experience designing and scalable reporting data stores.
• Experience with Python, Golang preferred.
• Experience working in a Dockerized environment.
• Experience in building products and features in CI/CD environments. 
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Glue (among others).
• Have built scalable internal and public facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP)
• Experience working with kafka, and postgreSQL.
• Microservices and Event Driven Architecture.
• Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
• Experience designing extensible systems that are used as a platform or foundational service.
• Knowledge of affiliate advertising space preferred, understanding of nuances with network data.
• Background or familiarity working with Finance or accounting partners and stakeholders.

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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