Lead Engineer - Unified Channels

Why You Should Join the Unified Channels Platform Team 

• The Unified Channels Platform (UCP) team is part of Klaviyo’s Channel Infrastructure pillar. Channel Infrastructure builds and runs the systems that structure and send billions of messages on multiple communications channels every day.

• UCP is a small architecture-focused group that partners with all other teams across Channel Infrastructure to drive transformation of our systems into a next-generation platform that will serve Klaviyo’s rapidly growing scale and business needs.

• The opportunity for a Lead Engineer joining this team is to take on tough problems like service boundaries, pluggable systems, complex business requirements, and the detailed needs of different communications channels, while at the same time proposing and leading concrete projects that move us towards our vision.

• You’ll be collaborating across a wide area, working closely with other technical leaders and our Product team.

How You Will Make a Difference 

• Learn our existing systems for coordinating marketing activities and sending messages top to bottom. Understand the technical strengths and weaknesses of what we have.

• Use your knowledge of object oriented design and systems best practices, together with your real-world experiences,  to propose improvements that  advance our platform vision.

• Collaborate with engineers, managers and product to devise projects that drive those improvements.

• Be hands-on as a contributor and technical project leader.

• Aid in the growth of Klaviyo engineering through interviews and recruiting-related initiatives.

• Be a coach and a mentor for engineers across Klaviyo, helping us grow our next technical leaders.

Who You Are 

• You’re a software engineer/architect with 8+ years of experience focusing on backend functions and distributed systems.

• Experienced with cloud-based systems development and deployment, AWS preferred; experienced designing and operating systems for very high volume workloads and web-scale data.

• You have been the technical leader on major, business-critical projects involving multiple teams.

• You have expert knowledge of object-oriented design principles and have experience with matching efficient and adaptable designs to complex business requirements and workflows.

• Nice to have: Experience with marketing technology/automation.

• Like working with small, high-performing autonomous agile teams. At Klaviyo, you will have ownership of features, but you'll collaborate with everyone to make sure we produce the right solution.

Technologies we use (not exhaustive):

• Python, Django, React, RabbitMQ, Celery, MySQL, Redis, Memcached.

• Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.), Terraform, Jenkins