Engineering Manager, Links

Remote

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: Engineer Manager - Links

Job Purpose: We are searching for an engineering leader to manage a core-tech backend squad responsible for the api to manage links across the various systems in LTK as well as the public facing link resolution endpoints. 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to development, reviews, and maintenance of new features, product requirements documents, technical design documents and functional specifications
• Participate in the on-call rotation with your team.
• Partner with senior management to identify appropriate metrics to monitor team performance.
• Acts as the scrum master, ensuring proper backlog refinement and value delivery in every sprint.
• Influence the technical vision for your department through discussions with peers and senior management.
• Take an active role in hiring, goal setting, performance management, promotions, and retention strategies across your team.
• Minimize retention risks and create effective development plans to prepare employees for their next role.  
• You focus on growing leaders – emphasizing all aspects of the employee lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and employee development). 
• Work with leaders across the organization as a core-tech service owner to understand how your team’s changes impact upstream and downstream services.
• Obtain buy-in and adoption across the organization for changes in the foundation of LTK that will drive our long term business and technical strategy.
• Work with the team and stakeholders to break down and prioritize work to reduce technical debt.
• 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.

Leadership Qualifications:

• At least 2+ years in leadership roles with a proven and consistent history of leading developers.
• 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 
• Proven success as a senior level developer in a backend team.
• Able to drive productivity and motivate a team to full project completion

Technical Skills:

• 10+ years with software backend systems, architectures and infrastructure.
•  5+ years with the data architecture, data processing tools and reporting technologies.
• History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment
• Proven experience designing and scalable reporting data stores.
• Experience with Golang and Python
• Experience working in a Dockerized environment.
• Experience in building products and features in CI/CD environments. 
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Glue (among others).
• Have built scalable internal and public facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP)
• Experience working with kafka, and postgreSQL.
• Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).
• Experience designing extensible systems that are used as a platform or foundational service.
• Knowledge of affiliate marketing space or link redirection and tracking.

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What we offer

• 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 matching
• Wellness reimbursement
• Paid parental leave program
• Summer Fridays, birthday PTO, and paid volunteerism days
• In-person team events

Benefits package includes: Medical insurance, PPO, HSA, Wellness benefits, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, Paid maternity leave, Paid paternity leave, Family Bonding Time, Disability insurance, Life insurance, AD&D, Short-Term disability, Paid time off, Pet insurance benefits and more

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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 150+ countries drive more than $3.6 billion in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 20 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. And, more than 6,000 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

• Be a team player
• Make an impact
• Bring on the fun

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.