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Insense | TikTok & Meta Partner

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51 - 200 employees

💰 $2.6M Seed Round on 2022-02

Marketing • Social Media

Insense is a platform that facilitates collaboration between brands and creators for producing user-generated content (UGC) and influencer ads, particularly on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. As a TikTok and Meta Partner, Insense offers tools to streamline the production and distribution of creator content for marketing purposes. Brands can utilize Insense's services for acquiring high-quality, authentic UGC, managing creator relationships, and enhancing ad performance through whitelisted ads and other creative content solutions. The platform supports businesses by connecting them with suitable creators and managing content campaigns efficiently.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain our backend systems and services • Lead technical discussions and help define the architecture and technical direction of the backend • Remain actively involved in coding, code reviews, and solving complex technical challenges • Oversee the development and maintenance of our GraphQL API, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability • Support and mentor engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and feedback • Help prioritize work, identify blockers, and drive projects through to delivery • Manage deployments and contribute to infrastructure improvements in our Kubernetes environment on GKE • Work closely with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality features and a great user experience • Proactively identify opportunities for product and technical improvements based on business and user needs • Help establish and maintain engineering best practices, code quality standards, and development processes • Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment while working with colleagues across different cultures and time zones

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience • Strong written and verbal English • Previous experience leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, or guiding a small engineering team • Proficiency in Ruby; experience with functional programming patterns is a strong plus • Advanced SQL / PostgreSQL knowledge • Experience with GraphQL API development • Comfortable with DevOps concepts - deployments, Kubernetes, GCP AI-native • You actively use AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) in your daily development workflow • Product-minded, proactive, and able to work across cultures • Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive technical decisions from idea to delivery • Experience leading architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices • Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership responsibilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Forever remote role • Work from anywhere role • Salary in USD commensurate with your experience and location • 15 days of paid time off, plus US holidays (Get one extra day for each year with us) • Team retreats around the world • International exposure to global clients and employees in AMER + EMEA