About Us
LTK is the largest global influencer marketing platform. Founded in 2011 by Amber Venz Box and Baxter Box, the company’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle creators to be as economically successful as possible.
Now in its 10th year, LTK has grown to become a three-sided marketplace, serving creators, brands and shoppers.
LTK is the most trusted and effective business-enablement platform for creators, powering their universal LTK Creator Shops™. More than 5,000 retailers employ the LTK Brand Platform for performance-driven campaigns, paid collaborations and content licensing, and invested more than $1 billion in influencer marketing through the LTK platform by summer 2021.
Shoppers purchase more than $3 billion in products annually on the LTK platform and app. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX with teams in the UK, Brazil, France, Germany, Australia, China and South Korea and clients in more than 100 countries.
Title: Senior Engineering Manager, Influencer Backend Platform
Location: Dallas, Texas or Remote
Reports to: Director of Engineering
Job Purpose:
We are searching for a Senior Software Engineering Development Manager to lead a team of talented engineers on multiple development projects involving high volume data supported by a scaled backend platform of large size and complexity while also being hands-on as a developer yourself.
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.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to development, reviews, and maintenance of new features, product requirements documents, technical design documents and functional specifications
- Ensure team members follow SDLC processes so that solutions meet specified requirements (e.g. business requirements, company standards, quality, availability and performance expectations)
- 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.
- Recruit and hire software and quality engineers.
- Establish and monitor objectives for all employees by providing regular feedback, coaching, training and development that fosters both personal and organizational growth.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Support, Marketing, and Executive Management to ensure the development team meets software release schedules, goals, and objectives with high quality.
- Develop a team-oriented, supportive culture with a strong focus on creating a working environment that fosters creativity and open communication, as well as one that demands discipline and results.
- Build a first-class Engineering team that will scale as the company and business grows, identifying and filling any organizational gaps.
- Continually strengthen and simplify the engineering ecosystem.
Qualifications:
Leadership:
- Servant leader used to getting your hands dirty with your team, including participating in on call rotation with your team.
- Proven experience in rapid, continuous releases, used to shipping multiple times a day
- At least 5+ years in leadership roles with a proven and consistent history of leading developers
- Able to drive productivity and motivate a team to full project completion
Work Management/Communication:
- Highly developed negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills to mediate priority conflicts in an effective and collaborative manner
- Must work well under pressure, be sensitive to deadlines, be able to interact in a team environment, be able to adapt quickly to change, and possess good customer service skills.
Technical Skills:
- 10+ years with software backend systems, architectures and infrastructure.
- History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment
- Experience with Golang and Python
- Experience working in a Dockerized environment.
- Continuously build and test code using tools like CircleCI
- Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
- Proven experience designing and scaling relational databases
- Have built scalable internal and public facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP)
- Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
Nice to have:
- Frontend experience building systems in Vue.js
- Previous experience in SEO
- Experience with non-relational databases such as DynamoDB, or Cassandra
- Experience working in eCommerce, affiliate marketing or social media.
What's in it for you?
- Interesting problems to solve
- Competitive comp and benefits including retirement plans
- Flexible work schedule plus Summer Fridays (Workday ends at 3pm)
- Disrupting the retail industry!
- Work and workout from home with our live Virtual Fitness Classes!
- Virtual Company Happy Hours and Virtual Team Events!
What you have to look forward to when you work or visit for team huddles a LTK Office:
- Fully stocked bars and kitchen (free snacks all day!)
- Catered meals weekly
- Monthly Chair massages
- Laidback office environment
- Monthly themed Happy Hours!
- Free access to state of the art gym while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
- Free Covered Parking on-site while working in or visiting our Dallas HQ
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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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rewardStyle is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
