Staff Engineer – Platform

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🕒 August 26

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $175k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Later

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

📣 Marketing

🛍️ eCommerce

🌍 Social Impact

Marketing • eCommerce • Social Impact

Later is an award-winning platform that specializes in influencer marketing and social media management. The company provides tools for brands and creators to connect, manage campaigns, and analyze performance across various social networks. Later focuses on streamlining communication and collaboration while delivering transparent analytics and data-driven insights to drive predictable marketing results for its clients.

📋 Description

• Design scalable, maintainable, and secure service architectures • Identify platform-wide improvements, new service development opportunities, and technical-debt reduction initiatives • Contribute to the long-term platform vision and engineering standards • Build backend services using C# in a functional programming paradigm or TypeScript for web and background-worker applications • Work with SQL and NoSQL databases • Design, containerize, and deploy services with Docker and Kubernetes • Build and optimize cloud infrastructure using AWS or similar platforms • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and Infrastructure as Code • Apply security best practices across applications and infrastructure • Ensure reliability and scalability through test automation, performance profiling, and optimization • Integrate and manage third-party APIs • Explore and implement AI/ML-driven features or integrations • Mentor peers and junior engineers • Collaborate with Product Managers, Staff Engineers, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope projects, and deliver platform solutions • Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex backend issues • Stay current on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and secure software practices • Share learnings, improve engineering standards, and advocate for technologies that create business leverage

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong background in distributed systems, platform engineering, and driving architectural decisions • Proficiency with typed, functional programming in Haskell, Scala, C#, or TypeScript • Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases; PostgreSQL expertise preferred • Expertise in system architecture, designing secure, scalable, and maintainable platforms • Broad experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS or equivalent cloud • Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, including Git, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code • Expertise in application and infrastructure security best practices • Strong understanding of testing and automation practices • Experience in performance optimization for reliability and scalability • Proficiency in third-party API integration and management • Experience or strong interest in AI/ML applications in production systems • Demonstrated mentorship ability • Proven experience working in ambiguous, complex problem spaces with strong problem-solving skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package