Technical Services Director
OLLYSalary not specified
Full Time
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Marketing Technology, SaaSIndustries
Requirements
- Deeply technical and strategically minded with experience in platform architecture
- Ability to rapidly assess existing systems and define convergence opportunities
- Expertise in designing scalable integration strategies between heterogeneous systems (e.g., Rails ↔ Node/React Native via APIs, Kafka, or event streams)
- Strong knowledge of domain-driven design principles for decomposing monolithic applications (Rails, Django, Laravel) into domain-based services or bounded contexts
- Proficiency in defining integration and data synchronization patterns, including schema evolution and API versioning best practices
- Experience architecting core platform services (authentication, identity, content, analytics) shared across web and mobile products
- Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS/Postgres, EventBridge/SNS/SQS) and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and CI/CD standards (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
- Ability to thrive in fast-moving environments, understand trade-offs between pragmatism and purity, and translate complex technical concepts into actionable decisions
- Experience providing technical mentorship and conducting architectural reviews
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and define the target-state domain architecture across multiple products, identifying convergence opportunities and technical debt reduction paths
- Design and lead a scalable integration strategy between heterogeneous systems
- Define domain boundaries and service ownership models that enable sustainable growth and platform flexibility
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align architectural priorities with product roadmaps and business outcomes
- Lead cross-functional discussions on modernization strategy, balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability
- Decompose monolithic applications into domain-based services or bounded contexts using domain-driven design principles
- Define integration and data synchronization patterns between distributed systems, ensuring schema evolution and API versioning best practices
- Architect core platform services—authentication, identity, content, and analytics—shared across web and mobile products
- Apply deep hands-on knowledge of AWS and IaC tools to build and modernize infrastructure
- Introduce observability, monitoring, and CI/CD standards that support secure, high-quality releases
- Provide technical mentorship and architectural reviews to ensure strong engineering standards and knowledge transfer across teams
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to guide architecture decisions that optimize user experience and technical sustainability
- Contribute to architecture guilds and domain working groups, defining shared frameworks and principles for systems
Skills
Domain Architecture
System Architecture
Integration Strategy
Scalability
Technical Standards
Platform Modernization
Microservices
Cloud Architecture
API Design
Data Architecture
Later
Social media management and influencer marketing tools
About Later
Later provides tools for social media marketing, focusing on helping marketers, brands, and influencers create engaging content and measure their results. Its main products include Later Influence, which automates influencer marketing campaigns and connects brands with influencers; Later Social Media Management, a tool for planning, scheduling, and analyzing social media posts; and Later Link in Bio, which allows users to drive traffic to multiple destinations from a single link in their bio. Unlike many competitors, Later emphasizes a subscription model that offers various service tiers, ensuring continuous updates and support for users. The company's goal is to establish the first "Social Revenue" platform, enabling clients to achieve predictable and measurable returns from their social media activities.
Vancouver, CanadaHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
$3.7MTotal Funding
SEEDCompany Stage
Consumer Software, Consumer GoodsIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees
Benefits
Hybrid work environment
Education & conference budget
Wellness spending account
Flexible hours & work schedule
Technology bonus
Annual company retreat
Vacation & wellness days
Parental leave top-up
Learning & development workshops
Stock options
Risks
Linktree's growth may overshadow Later's Link in Bio tool.
Integration of Mavely could distract from core offerings.
Instagram's video shift may require adaptation of Later's tools.
Differentiation
Later combines influencer marketing and social media management in a unified platform.
The company offers AI-powered social listening tools for actionable insights.
Later's acquisition of Mavely enhances its social commerce capabilities.
Upsides
AI-enhanced search optimizes influencer discovery and ROI for brands.
Social commerce trends offer new monetization opportunities for creators.
Later's partnerships with major social platforms expand its market reach.
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