资深工程师（平台）
Staff Engineer (Platform)
Later 是全球最智能的影响力营销公司，致力于让品牌在创建难忘营销活动时充满信心。通过结合真实的创作者关系、可信赖的智能分析和专业指导，Later 消除了营销中最显著投资中的恐惧和猜测。
Later 基于原生 AI 驱动的平台，以及超过十年的专有数据——包括数十亿次社交媒体互动、曝光量和超过 24 亿美元的经验证的影响力驱动购买——帮助团队在发布前了解什么会有效。
通过将可信洞察与专业指导相结合，Later 消除了影响力营销中的猜测，使品牌能够选择合适的创作者，执行完全管理的活动，并在知名度、参与度和收入方面推动有意义的增长。Nike、Wayfair、联合利华和西南航空等领先企业都信任 Later，让创意与绩效相辅相成，使活动不仅看起来出色，还能带来实际成果。了解更多请访问 later.com。
关于该职位：
我们正在寻找一位拥有现代 Web 开发技术背景，并对在我们平台共享服务组中构建高质量分布式应用充满热情的资深工程师。理想的候选人是能够在快节奏环境中解决问题的人，能对自己的工作负责，并能很好地与同事合作，包括指导初级团队成员。
您将从事的工作：
策略
- 设计可扩展、可维护且安全的服务架构。
- 识别平台范围内的改进机会、新服务开发以及减少技术债务。
- 参与长期平台愿景，并帮助制定工程卓越标准。
技术/执行
- 使用 C# 在函数式编程范式中构建后端服务，或使用 TypeScript 构建网页和后台工作者应用。
- 使用 SQL 和 NoSQL 数据库；优先考虑 PostgreSQL 专业知识。
- 使用 Docker 和 Kubernetes 设计、容器化并部署服务。
- 使用 AWS 或类似平台构建和优化云基础设施。
- 实现和维护 CI/CD 流水线、Git 工作流和基础设施即代码。
- 在应用程序和基础设施中应用安全最佳实践（安全编码、漏洞评估、密钥管理）。
- 通过测试自动化、性能分析和优化确保可靠性和可扩展性。
- 集成和管理第三方服务
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Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments.
Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.
By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. Learn more at later.com.
About this position:
We are seeking a Staff Engineer with a strong background in modern web development technologies and a passion for building high-quality, distributed applications within our Platform’s Shared Services group. The ideal candidate is a problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment, takes ownership of their work, and collaborates well with peers, including coaching junior team members.
What you'll be doing:
Strategy
- 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.
Technical / Execution
- 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.
Team / Collaboration
- 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.
Research / Best Practices
- Stay current on emerging technologies in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and secure software practices.
- Share learnings and elevate engineering standards across teams.
- Continuously improve system performance, scalability, and developer experience.
- Identify and advocate for adoption of new technologies that create leverage for the business.
What success looks like:
- You consistently deliver high-impact projects on time, meeting both technical and business objectives.
- You’re seen as a trusted technical leader and SME across multiple, adjacent business domains who raises the bar for engineering excellence across teams.
- You proactively identify opportunities to optimize performance, security, and scalability, and successfully implement solutions.
- You coach and influence peers, creating a ripple effect that improves team performance and morale.
What you bring:
- A strong appetite for learning and personal growth.
- 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.
How you work:
- Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear.
- Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights.
- Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement.
- Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high.
- Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth.
- Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.
Our approach to compensation:
We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.
Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only. The salary range listed for this role reflects the zones that applies to the location of this posting.
To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.
Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.
Salary Range:
For candidates located in the US: OTE $175,000 - $250,000 USD
For candidates located in Canada: OTE $170,000 - $200,000 CDN
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Where we work:
We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located.
Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility:
At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.