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: Manager, Engineering
Location: US-Remote #LI-Remote
LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a tremendous 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.
About the role
We are searching for an engineering leader to manage a core-tech backend squad responsible for notifications in the shopper and creator apps. As the leader of one of our development teams, you will be responsible for conducting, leading and coordinating software development activities throughout the product lifecycle as well as managing the day-to-day activities of the development team within an Agile Development environment.
The LTK Notifications Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining LTK’s notifications and email marketing implementation. The team delivers various back-end services, Hubspot and Braze integrations, and mobile notifications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the team that delivers millions of notifications to both consumers and Creators.
- Contribute to the development, reviews, and maintenance of new features, product requirements documents, technical design documents, and functional specifications.
- Influence the technical vision for your department through discussions with peers and senior management.
- Take an active role in hiring, goal setting, performance management, promotions, and retention strategies across your team.
- Minimize retention risks and create effective development plans to prepare employees for their next role.
- You focus on growing leaders – emphasizing all aspects of the employee lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and employee development).
- Work with leaders across the organization as a core-tech service owner to understand how your team’s changes impact upstream and downstream services.
- Obtain buy-in and adoption across the organization for changes in the foundation of LTK that will drive our long-term business and technical strategy.
- Work with the team and stakeholders to break down and prioritize work to reduce technical debt.
- Contribute to the development, reviews, and maintenance of new features, product requirements documents, technical design documents, and functional specifications.
- Participate in the on-call rotation with your team.
- Partner with senior management to identify appropriate metrics to monitor team performance.
- Influence the technical vision for your department through discussions with peers and senior management.
- Identify and pursue improvements in engineering and organizational process, gathering and using data to support and guide continuous growth in product excellence and engineering productivity.
What they will bring to LTK:
Leadership Qualifications:
- At least 2+ years in leadership roles with a proven and consistent history of leading developers.
- Servant leader used to being hands-on and supporting their team, including participating in on call rotation with their team.
- Proven experience in rapid, continuous releases, used to shipping multiple times a day.
- Proven success as a senior-level developer in a backend team.
- Able to drive productivity and motivate a team to full project completion.
Technical Skills:
- 6+ years with software backend systems, architectures and infrastructure.
- Experience with data architecture, data processing tools and reporting technologies.
- History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
- Experience writing services in Go, Python, C++ or Java
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, system monitors, and log aggregation services
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Glue (among others).
- Expertise in working with various data storage technologies, including relational databases, NoSQL databases (like Hadoop HDFS, Apache Cassandra), and columnar databases.
- Experience with relational and time series databases.
- Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP)
- Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
- Experience designing extensible systems that are used as a platform or foundational service.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and related technologies.
- Familiarity with agile methods and familiarity with Scrum or Kanban frameworks.
- Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
Preferred Skills
- Braze CRM experience.
- Hubspot experience.
- Working with and administering mobile notifications.
- Experience with mobile notification architecture at scale.
#LI-JF #LI-Remote
- 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
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 160+ countries drive more than $4 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 7,000 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 mission
To empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.
Our values
- Here to win
- Commit to the journey
- Work well
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. #LI-Remote
What We Do
LTK (formerly rewardStyle & LIKEtoKNOW.it) is a global technology platform founded in 2011 to empower the world’s premium lifestyle creators to be as economically successful as possible. Today, the LTK platform connects brands, creators and shoppers with a world-class shopping app and trusted tools and technology that makes content instantly shoppable across the social universe.
LTK Brand™
More than 5,000 global retailers choose LTK to deliver their influencer marketing programs at scale. With 10 years’ of proprietary sales insights and cross-channel performance data, LTK is unparalleled in its ability to not only build influencer marketing campaigns for brands with proven ROI, but also measure full-funnel brand performance from discovery to transaction. LTK is the only place where brands can leverage historical, cross-channel retail performance data to cast, price and execute creator campaigns.
LTK Creator™
LTK is a one-stop destination that puts creators in business. More than 100,000 fashion, beauty, fitness, home, and lifestyle influencers use LTK to monetize their content across the entire social ecosystem, and to manage their bespoke storefront - their Shop on LTK. LTK Creators will now find new tools and technology that make it even more efficient to manage their Shop on LTK and market their content across the web.
A two-time honoree on Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies, LTK is a leading influencer technology platform, driving more than $2.8 billion in annual brand purchases from over 100,000 talented creators in 100+ countries.
LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX and currently operates in the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia, China, South Korea and Brazil. Today, LTK has more than 350 employees and we are actively hiring innovators, disrupters and problem solvers who want to join our rocket ship.
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