Staff Engineer, Backend, Media & Video

LTK • Remote

Company

LTK

Location

Remote

Type

Full Time

Job Description

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 Software Engineer, Backend, Video and Media
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:

  • Work closely with engineering leads, engineers, product manager, architects and client support teams, lead product development throughout the entire development cycle.
  • Enhance video and media processing services, including improving reliability, scalability, and optimizing transcoding 
  • Write very high-quality code that is robust and easy to maintain with tests.
  • Consistently apply sound engineering practices leading to improved business outcomes
  • Conduct project level design reviews and guides the team through adjustments if necessary
  • This role requires logical thinking, possesses a breadth of knowledge on applying technology, quick troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
  • Identify high-impact opportunities for improvement and scaling of existing products and tools to support our growth
  • 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:

  • 8+ years of software development experience.
  • History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
  • Fluency in working with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
  • Experience in Golang 
  • Experience with video/media processing, particularly transcoding pipelines 
  • Knowledge of DevOps tooling: CI/CD tools, Git, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
  • Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
  • A keen eye for good software design, empathy for the end-user, and eagerness to take ownership of work by collaborating with collaborators and other engineers through all stages of the product development lifecycle
  • Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have:

  • Experience working in big data.
  • Relational database experience such as MySQL
  • Experience with eCommerce platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce.
  • Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
  • Experience with Observability tools like Datadog or Grafana

 

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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 matching
  • Wellness reimbursement
  • Paid parental leave program
  • Summer Fridays, birthday PTO, and paid volunteerism days
  • In-person team events

Benefits package includes: Medical insurance, PPO, 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

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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 150+ countries drive more than $3.6 billion in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 20 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. And, more than 6,000 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
  • Be a team player
  • Make an impact
  • Bring on the fun
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. 


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.

Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of LTK are considered the property of LTK and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Date Posted

08/06/2023

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