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: Software Engineer, Backend
Location: USA-Remote
About the role
We are hiring a Software Engineer to contribute to our Product Catalog efforts. The Product Catalog is the backbone of LTK’s Creator-Driven Shopping App. This service will contain billions of items, powering scenarios such as price drops, link management, retailer availability, search, ranking, and similar product scenarios.
The ideal candidate has strong backend software development skills, and an interest in building e-commerce and product catalog systems. You have experience building scalable systems at high reliability.
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.
How you will make an impact
- Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems using Golang and related technologies.
- 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.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members.
- 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 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
- 3+ years of software development experience.
- History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems in a cloud environment.
- Experience writing services in Golang.
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Experience with CICD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, and web protocols (REST, HTTP, etc.).
- Have 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.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Python.
- Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
- Knowledge of domain-driven design.
- Experience integrating systems for auth and identity management.
- Familiar with feature flags and A/B testing.
- Familiar with knowledge of observability tools such as DataDog.
- 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 $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 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.
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LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #LI-Remote
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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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