Lead Software Engineer
Published on January 29, 2024
Share Local Media (SLM) aims to reimagine the world of offline marketing for tech and e-commerce companies. We started as e-commerce marketers ourselves, and launched SLM with a goal of turning direct mail into a high performing, scalable channel for a digitally native client set. To do so, we’ve taken an inputs based-approach to the space, and re-engineered the channel from the ground up to make it easier to test, faster to execute, more measurable, and ultimately, more effective for e-commerce and tech clients of all types. We live and breathe direct response marketing, and strive to delight clients with high performing campaigns built around fast, data-driven client service, and premium, unique branding.
About us
Share Local Media, or SLM, is a rapidly growing startup reimagining the world of offline marketing for tech and e-commerce companies. We started as e-commerce marketers ourselves, and launched SLM with a goal of turning direct mail into a high performing, scalable channel for a digitally native client set. To do so, we’ve taken an inputs based-approach to the space, and re-engineered the channel from the ground up to make it easier to test, faster to execute, more measurable, and ultimately, more effective for e-commerce and tech clients of all types.
So what does SLM actually do? We’re a full-service direct mail agency, media program operator, and technology platform, serving some of your favorite e-commerce and tech brands (think Casper, Lyft, Grubhub, etc.). We live and breathe direct response marketing, and strive to delight clients with high performing campaigns built around fast, data-driven client service, and premium, unique branding.
What are we like at SLM? We’re passionate, humble, and kind. We value data-driven thinking, speed, persistence, creativity, and teamwork. We love helping clients grow and scale through a tactile medium that has long term brand value. And finally, we get excited about transforming an old-school channel into something new through data, product, technology, and a service-driven mentality.
Share our excitement? Great - we’d love to hear from you!
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our agency platform team made up of one data engineering lead, two senior software engineers and a product manager. The team is responsible for managing our data platform to support our analytics teams.
The team's portfolio ingests and processes hundreds of millions of rows of client order data, campaign mailing data, and USPS scan data. The consolidated data is then accessed by our web applications or for ad hoc data analyses.
You will work together with our product team to ensure that we continue to scale and develop solutions to meet the growing demands of our clients across all of SLM’s business lines. You will be responsible for writing code for our backend platform and internal tooling while also managing and growing two software engineer direct reports.
Our current stack is built on AWS, leveraging a variety of services including: ECS, EC2, RDS, Redshift, Apache Airflow, Lambda Functions, Glue Jobs. We also leverage dbt for data transformation and modeling.
In addition we use tools like terraform for managing infrastructure, as well as Sentry & Datadog for monitoring and observability.
Our code bases are primarily written in: Ruby, Python, SQL, & R.
Core Responsibilities
- Drive technical projects and provide leadership, while also contributing code directly to the core engineering projects.
- Work closely with product managers and other internal stakeholders to identify opportunities and provide an engineering perspective, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
- Provide day-to-day management for your team. Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience in a Lead or Engineering Management role.
- Fluent in at least one mainstream programming language.
- Proven track record of building and scaling complex applications.
- Technical chops and desire to help drive architectural decisions, coding standards and processes for your team.
- Great communication skills. You should be able to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
What we offer
- Full-time role based in our NYC office or US based remote option for this role
- Base salary range for this position is $160,000 to $205,000 and is based upon experience and other factors.
- Ownership and growth opportunities
- Flexible vacation policy
- Covered travel to NY for team on sites
- Robust benefits package
- A fun culture including: team events, happy hours, and trips
- The opportunity to work with a group of passionate, humble, and kind team members
If you’re looking to be part of something new that is transforming an industry, this is the role for you. You will be empowered to think like an entrepreneur by coming up with new ideas, testing them, implementing them, and then scaling them quickly.