Backend Engineer II, Growth

Title:

Software Engineer, Backend

Location:

US-Remote

Job Purpose:

Join the LTK Family! We are looking for talented 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

1. Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems using Golang and related technologies.
2. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
3. Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that adheres to best practices and coding standards.
4. Write automated tests to ensure high code quality and reduce regression risks.
5. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members.
6. Troubleshoot and debug production issues and provide timely solutions.
7. Continuously improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of our systems.
8. Drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects.
9. Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
10. Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
11. Work with distributed teams across different time zones.

Qualifications

1. 3+ years of software development experience.
2. History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems in a cloud environment.
3. Experience writing services in Golang, Python.
4. Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS.
5. Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
6. Experience with CICD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
7. Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
8. Solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, and web protocols (REST, HTTP, etc.).
9. Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
10. Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
11. Ability to model and conceptualize complex systems.
12. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Have

1. Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
2. Knowledge of domain-driven design.
3. Experience integrating systems for auth and identity management.
4. Familiar with feature flags and A/B testing.
5. Familiar with knowledge of observability tools such as DataDog.

What We Offer

1. The opportunity to be part of the leading global company in creator commerce.
2. A remote-first, productivity-first environment.
3. Competitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family.
4. 401(k) with LTK matching.
5. Wellness reimbursement.
6. Paid parental leave program.
7. Summer Fridays, birthday PTO, and paid volunteerism days.
8. In-person team events.

Benefits package includes: Medical insurance, PPO, FSA, HSA, Wellness benefits, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Paid maternity leave, Paid paternity leave, Family Bonding Time, Disability insurance, Life insurance, AD&D, Short-Term disability, Paid time off, Pet insurance benefits and more.