Staff Backend Engineer | Brand Platform

Title: Staff Backend Engineer, Brand Platform
Location: Remote in the US

Job Purpose: Join the LTK Family! As a part of the Brand Platform Engineering team, you will help us on our mission to be the largest digital marketing platform powered by influencers. Our platform currently empowers over 6,000 brands across the globe to engage with their desired audience through our network of over 100,000 influencers. 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 an innovative new marketplace platform to connect brands to the right influencers through proprietary data and actionable insight.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecting and developing scalable customer facing platforms and products. 
• Building enterprise level system integrations.
• Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience writing services in Golang.
• History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
• Experience working in a containerized environment (preferably Docker).
• 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.
• Proven experience designing and scaling relational databases.
• Knowledge of domain-driven design.

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