Staff Engineer – Platform

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $175k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Later

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

🌍 Social Impact

B2B • 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 opportunities for platform-wide improvements, new service development, and reduction of technical debt. • Contribute to long-term platform vision and help shape standards for engineering excellence. • Build backend services using C# in a Functional Programming paradigm or TypeScript for web and background worker applications. • Work with both SQL and NoSQL databases; PostgreSQL expertise preferred. • 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 (secure coding, vulnerability assessments, secrets management). • Ensure reliability and scalability through test automation, performance profiling, and optimization. • Integrate and manage third-party APIs with robust monitoring and management practices. • Explore and implement AI/ML-driven features or integrations into applications. • Act as a technical mentor, multiplying team impact by elevating skills and practices of peers and junior engineers. • Collaborate with Product Managers, other Staff Engineers, and cross-functional teams to define requirements, scope projects, and deliver platform solutions. • Work closely with stakeholders to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex backend issues across the stack. • Contribute to engineering culture by modeling ownership, accountability, and a growth mindset.

🎯 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, with 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 (Git, CI/CD, 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, helping elevate the technical impact of the team. • Proven experience working in ambiguous, complex problem spaces with strong problem-solving skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.