Staff Engineer

Company Information

Later is the enterprise leader in social media and influencer marketing software, services, and data, trusted by leading brands and agencies worldwide. Following our acquisition of Mavely, the Everyday Influencer Platform®, Later enables brands to scale creator partnerships from nano to premium influencers while managing social media content and campaigns across all major social and affiliate networks. Through proprietary performance data, marketing leaders can drive attributable sales and optimize social commerce with our software platform or award-winning services.

Later is founded on two success stories that began in 2014: Mavrck, the industry-leading influencer marketing solution (now Later Influence™), and Later, the best social media management platform (now Later Social™) and first-to-market link in bio tool, Later Link in Bio. In 2024, Mavrck and Later officially joined together as one unified business, with a shared vision: to enable the world to make a living with their creativity.

We’re trusted by the top social platforms, with partnerships and integrations with Meta, TikTok, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.

We enable marketers to create high-performing content and engage in authentic collaborations with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.

We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career. If you identify with any of the following, we encourage you to apply!

Position Overview

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We are seeking a Staff Developer with a strong background in modern web development technologies and a passion for building high-quality, scalable applications. The ideal candidate will be a problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes ownership of their work.

Responsibilities

• Ability to scope, plan, and lead large projects, with previous experience in delivering significant features and roadmap items. You have delivered multiple large features in a code base and understand how codebases evolve over time.
• Experience communicating across teams, reaching out to stakeholders across the business. You feel comfortable reaching out on Slack or email to someone you haven’t worked with yet to start a conversation about a feature or bug.
• Ability to understand, clarify, and refine requirements in a rapidly growing business. You’re comfortable with some ambiguous requirements and you understand that different stakeholders have different priorities. You’re able to navigate competing interests to deliver features that delight users.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical and non technical thoughts throughout the organization. You are comfortable speaking up in meetings and non technical folks feel comfortable working with you.
• Being the go-to person for solving unknown problems and delivering solutions. When something breaks, your coworkers look to you as the expert for digging in and fixing issues. Nothing is too hard for you to tackle.
• Continuously improving the code base and upholding a high engineering culture of PR reviews, architecture patterns, and coding styles. You understand best principles for code reviews, idiomatic code patterns in at least one language, and you known best practices for testing and deployment.

Requirements

• Frontend Development: Strong proficiency in React and Typescript. Knowledge of Ember.js is a plus.
• Backend Development: Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, specifically: Ruby on Rails and Node.js.
• Database Knowledge: Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases, specifically MySQL and DynamoDB.
• API Management: Expertise with integrating third-party APIs and managing them in a proactive manner.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• System Design & Architecture: Experience with designing scalable, maintainable, and secure systems.