Title: Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Location: US-Remote #LI-Remote

About the role

Join the LTK Family! We are searching for a senior level software engineer to collaborate with our core-tech backend squad responsible for Creator Retention and Growth. Creator Retention’s mission is to engage and delight our Creators, creating a vibrant community that is empowered to reach shoppers worldwide. You will be responsible for conducting and coordinating software development activities throughout the product lifecycle within an Agile Development environment.

The ideal Senior Software Engineer for this space will be organized, productive, and hungry for impact. You will have strong experience in building scalable systems that anticipate significant growth across multiple dimensions. You’ll be inventive, and have a pragmatic and iterative approach to delivering high quality software. You’ll ruthlessly prioritize to accomplish the highest impact deliverables first, and provide valuable guidance to the engineering manager on the direction of the team’s infrastructure. You will proactively establish lines of communication across the teams and business units, and draw on them to make the team successful.

How you will make an impact

•  Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
•  Write very high-quality, well-tested code that is robust and easy to maintain.
•  Take ownership of projects and drive them to completion.
•  Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment. 
•  Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
•  Conduct constructive 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.

What you will bring to LTK

•  5 years of software development experience.
•  History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
•  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 or compiled language (C , Java, etc).
•  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 working in big data.
• Strong in at least one scripting language
• Experience in asynchronous eventing patterns
• Relational Database experience such as MySql 
•  Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog or Grafana

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