Senior Software Engineer, Backend

LTK USA

7h • Remote

About The Position

Join the LTK Family! As a part of the Retail and Revenue Integrations organization, you will help us on our mission to be the largest digital marketing platform powered by influencers. You will lead the efforts on the Conversion team touching daily active users by 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.
Come up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
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 for your portion 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Degree: A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred, although relevant work experience can sometimes compensate for formal education.
• Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and understands the latest trends in database technology, particularly relevant to LLM and AI applications.
• Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
• History of designing and building scalable distributed systems in a cloud environment.
• Experience writing services in Golang (preferred), Python, Java or equivalent.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS or equivalents
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Having 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 Haves

• A good understanding of AI/ML technologies, including experience with training and fine-tuning models such as large language models (LLMs), recommendation systems, or computer vision models.
• Expertise in Search Engines (vector and/or keyword-based), including areas such as indexing, ranking, retrieval infrastructure, and query execution.
• Experience with AI/ML concepts and their application in software development.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Come up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
• 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 for your portion 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.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level