Position title : Staff Engineer

Remote from the U.S. #LI-Remote

Reports to: VP, Engineering

About the role

We are hiring a Staff Engineer to lead our Consumer and Creator efforts. Our Creator and Consumer iOS, Android, and Web Apps are driven by 50 back end services. These back end services handle many core functions from authentication to many account and application related scenarios as well as core product and posting scenarios.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of e-commerce and end-to-end product systems, and has experience delivering business value in a high growth, fast moving environment. You have experience building highly scalable systems that anticipate significant growth across multiple dimensions.

You'll simplify and get things done, working effectively with engineering teams across the company. You challenge yourself and your team to constantly come up with simpler and better solutions to complex problems. This highly visible position will have you working closely with the VP of engineering and other departments to ensure the success of LTK.

Some problem spaces your work will be directly supporting -

Authentication, Account management, Creator Application, Onboarding Creators, Shopper/Consumer experiences, Marketing, Creator Performance.

How you will make an impact

• Lead the building and scaling of multiple scale high throughput low latency Services.
• Bring a strong command of Golang, or other backend technologies.
• Have expertise in designing and building complex systems, architecture, and solutions and get a large number of leaders on board.
• Define engineering operational excellence and help complete critical engineering projects on time, within budget and at high quality.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies and tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering team.
• Innovation: Demonstrate your ability to solve complex technical challenges, provide innovative solutions, and influence technical direction.
• Excellence: Create and maintain technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, design documents, and project plans.
• System Design: Design, develop and deploy software solutions that meet the needs of the business.
• Problem Ownership: Willingness to take ownership of complex issues, drive problem resolution, and act as a technical leader in crisis situations.

What you will bring to LTK

Leadership:

• Leadership: Proven leadership skills, including mentoring and guiding many engineers, leading large complex technical initiatives across cross-functional teams.
• Project Management: Ability to lead projects from conception to completion, manage timelines, resources, and priorities effectively.
• Continuous Learning: A commitment to staying up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and methodologies, and a passion for sharing knowledge with peers.
• Mentor and coach teams within the department.

Work Management/Communication:

• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including other technical leaders and teams
• Communication: Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts, collaborate with non-technical stakeholders, and provide guidance on technical decisions.
• Influence: Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and mentor others in technical skills and practices.
• A mindset focused on seizing opportunities and moving with urgency.
• Dedication to fierce prioritization and operational excellence.
• Adaptability to a dynamic, fast-moving environment.
• A growth mindset and openness to feedback.

Technical Skills:

• ​​Experience: more than 8 years demonstrating a deep understanding of distributed systems and software development principles, architecture, and best practices.
• Degree: A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred, although relevant work experience can sometimes compensate for formal education.
• Design, develop and deploy software solutions that meet the needs of the business.
• Ensure that the engineering team adheres to coding standards, best practices, and compliance requirements.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and their big data services (e.g., Amazon EMR, Azure HDInsight, Google Cloud Dataproc).
• Containerization and Orchestration: Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes) for deploying and managing big data applications.
• Streaming Data: Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Apache Kafka or Apache Pulsar is valuable for handling real-time data streams.
• Optimization: Proficiency in optimizing big data applications for performance, throughput, and resource utilization.
• Data Storage: Expertise in working with various data storage technologies, including relational databases, NoSQL databases (like Hadoop HDFS, Apache Cassandra), and columnar databases.
• Data Modeling and ETL: Understanding of data modeling concepts and experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes for transforming and moving data between systems.