Senior Software Engineer
Published on May 08, 2025
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 inquisitive and self-driven Software Engineer for our platform team. This team provides tools and technology solutions to support our clients, internal account management, and data science teams.
The team's portfolio bridges and brings together mailfiles, customer data, USPS scan tracking, reporting, and attribution into a seamless easy to use experience. In this role you will help us build and maintain our internal data platform and infrastructure. You will be working with internal stakeholders, developing functionality to enable internal tools that ingest data from a variety of sources and provide insights into our data.
Being one of the go-to specialists within our organization, you will support the effective troubleshooting of technical issues such as database performance issues, and failed ETL jobs. You will work closely with a team of Data Analysts & Scientists, developing robust solutions and automations to optimize their workflows and to make data available and accessible across the organization.
You will be:
Our primary technologies are Ruby (on Rails), Python, and React.js. We are using Postgres, Docker, Redis and running on AWS.
Skills & Qualifications
What we offer
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.
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 inquisitive and self-driven Software Engineer for our platform team. This team provides tools and technology solutions to support our clients, internal account management, and data science teams.
The team's portfolio bridges and brings together mailfiles, customer data, USPS scan tracking, reporting, and attribution into a seamless easy to use experience. In this role you will help us build and maintain our internal data platform and infrastructure. You will be working with internal stakeholders, developing functionality to enable internal tools that ingest data from a variety of sources and provide insights into our data.
Being one of the go-to specialists within our organization, you will support the effective troubleshooting of technical issues such as database performance issues, and failed ETL jobs. You will work closely with a team of Data Analysts & Scientists, developing robust solutions and automations to optimize their workflows and to make data available and accessible across the organization.
You will be:
- Implementing campaign management tools to give clients real-time insights into their campaigns and offering vital insights.
- Building data pipelines and helping us integrate insights from clients existing (non-programmatic) campaigns.
- Integrating with printers and other 3rd parties to enable us to offer new formats and features.
- Working with our data team to iterate on tools and methodologies for attribution, tracking and reporting.
- Helping us evolve our AWS infrastructure for performance and security.
Our primary technologies are Ruby (on Rails), Python, and React.js. We are using Postgres, Docker, Redis and running on AWS.
Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience building software products.
- Strong experience with at least one common web application language such as Ruby, Python or NodeJS.
- Strong familiarity with AWS (EC2, S3, RDB)
- Strong database experience (Postgresql, Redshift, NoSQL)
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Experience working in a startup environment is a plus.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
What we offer
- Base salary range for this position is $145,000 - $185,000 and is based upon experience and other factors.
- Full-time role: Remote (US based) or hybrid (New York City)
- Career ownership and growth opportunities
- Flexible vacation policy
- 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.