Engineering Manager

Dallas

Job Description Job Description 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.

Position Title: Engineer Manager

About the role

We are searching for an engineering leader to manage a core-tech backend squad responsible for running our Media platform and near-real time streaming and analytics. Both are critical to the success of LTK through our creators' ability to publish content and view insights about the performance of that content. 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.

How you will make an impact

Manage the team that builds and maintains our media and near-real time event ingestion and analytics systems.

Collaborate with various feature teams who are providing value to both creators and shoppers.

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.

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.

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.

What you will bring to LTK

Leadership Qualifications:

At least 2+ years in leadership roles with a proven and consistent history of leading developers.

Servant leader used to being hands on and supporting 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 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.

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).

Experience with relational and time series databases.

Experience with eventing and data streaming by leveraging services like Amazon Event Bridge or Kafka.

Have built scalable internal and public facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP)

Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth).

Experience designing extensible systems that are used as a platform or foundational service.

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 company matching

Medical Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance

Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity Leave

Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO

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 160+ countries drive more than $4 billion+ in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 40 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. More than 7,000 retailers and 1M 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 Here to win

Commit to the journey

Work well

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. #LI-Remote