Senior Software Engineer, Content and Discovery

Title: Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Search
Location: US-Remote

Job Purpose: Join the LTK Family! We are looking for talented senior developers who are passionate about tackling challenging features and interesting problems at scale. You'll be working with a team of highly motivated and fast-moving professionals focused on creating innovative features, services, and products.

Key Responsibilities:

•  Architecting and developing web, software, and mobile apps.
•  Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
•  Write very high-quality code that is robust and easy to maintain with tests.
•  Drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects.
•  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.

Qualifications:

•  6+ years of software development experience.
•  History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
•  Experiencing building search products.
•  Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
•  Experience working in a containerized environment (preferably Docker).
•  Experience writing services in Golang, Python.
•  Proven experience designing and scaling relational databases.
•  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 eCommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce.
•  Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
•  Knowledge of domain-driven design.
•  Experience building and integrating systems for auth and identity management
•  Experience building flexible feeds
•  Experience with recommendation systems and algorithms
•  Experience designing or building cart and checkout systems.

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