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.
Position title: Sr. Software Engineer I
Location: Remote from the U.S. #LI-Remote
About the role
Join the LTK Family! As a part of the Links team, you will help us on our mission to be the largest digital marketing platform powered by influencers. You will work on improving our affiliate link optimization platform by developing scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems using Golang and related technologies. You will work on distributed systems that process billions of clicks annually and process billions of dollars in Gross Merchandise Value. You will build high-availability click routing, attribution and retailer optimization pipelines and flows. You will optimize for latency, resilience and revenue yield at massive scale.
How you will make an impact
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that adheres to best practices and coding standards.
- Write automated tests to ensure high code quality and reduce regression risks.
- Come up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
- Troubleshoot and debug production issues and provide timely solutions.
- Continuously improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of our systems.
- Drive tasks to completion and take ownership for your portion of projects.
- Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
- Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
- Work with distributed teams across different time zones.
What you will bring to LTK
- 8+ years of software development experience.
- 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.
- Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and understands the latest trends in database technology.
- Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
- History of designing and building scalable distributed systems in a cloud environment.
- Experience writing services in Golang (preferred), Python, Java or equivalent.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS or equivalents
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Having built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
- Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
- Ability to model and conceptualize complex systems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Familiar with knowledge of observability tools such as DataDog.
- Familiar with feature flags and A/B testing.
- 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
- 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 company matching
- Medical Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance
- Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity Leave
- Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO
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 160+ countries drive more than $5 billion+ in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 40 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. More than 8,000 retailers and 1M 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 missionTo empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.
Our values- Here to win
- Commit to the journey
- Work well
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. #LI-Remote
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