Staff Engineer
Published on June 05, 2025
Later is founded on two success stories that began in 2014: Mavrck, the industry-leading influencer marketing solution (now Later Influence™), and Later, the best social media management platform (now Later Social™) and first-to-market link in bio tool.
We’re trusted by the top social platforms, with partnerships and integrations with Meta, TikTok, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.
In 2024, Mavrck and Later officially joined together as one unified business, with a shared vision: to enable the world to make a living with their creativity. We’re now on a mission to build the world’s first Social Revenue Platform.
Later will be the first inclusive platform where social media managers, influencer managers, and creators can come together to collaborate on content. We enable marketers to create high-performing content and engage in authentic collaborations with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.
As a trusted partner and go-to source for social media advice, we help create an engaged community for reliable performance and repeatable growth.
- Ability to scope, plan, and lead large projects, with previous experience in delivering significant features and roadmap items. You have delivered multiple large features in a code base and understand how codebases evolve over time.
- Experience communicating across teams, reaching out to stakeholders across the business. You feel comfortable reaching out on Slack or email to someone you haven’t worked with yet to start a conversation about a feature or bug.
- Ability to understand, clarify, and refine requirements in a rapidly growing business. You’re comfortable with some ambiguous requirements and you understand that different stakeholders have different priorities. You’re able to navigate competing interests to deliver features that delight users.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical and non technical thoughts throughout the organization. You are comfortable speaking up in meetings and non technical folks feel comfortable working with you.
- Being the go-to person for solving unknown problems and delivering solutions. When something breaks, your coworkers look to you as the expert for digging in and fixing issues. Nothing is too hard for you to tackle.
- Continuously improving the code base and upholding a high engineering culture of PR reviews, architecture patterns, and coding styles. You understand best principles for code reviews, idiomatic code patterns in at least one language, and you known best practices for testing and deployment.
- Frontend Development: Strong proficiency in React and Typescript. Knowledge of Ember.js is a plus.
- Backend Development: Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, specifically: Ruby on Rails and Node.js.
- Database Knowledge: Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases, specifically MySQL and DynamoDB.
- API Management: Expertise with integrating third-party APIs and managing them in a proactive manner.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
- System Design & Architecture: Experience with designing scalable, maintainable, and secure system architectures.
- Performance Optimization: Expertise in profiling and optimizing applications for performance and scalability.
- Security Practices: In-depth knowledge of application and infrastructure security best practices.
- DevOps: Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and YAML configuration.
- Testing: Knowledge of test automation and quality assurance practices.
- Containerization: Experience with Docker (Kubernetes is a plus).
- AI/ML Applications: Broader experience in implementing AI/ML solutions in production beyond AI-powered development tools.
- Mentorship: Ability to coach and mentor junior team members, and influence others without authority.
- Experience with social networking platforms
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and implementations
- Interest and experience in AI-powered development tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.)
- Experience with DataDog or similar monitoring solutions
- Experience with iterative and rapid development methodologies
- You’re proactive and results-driven, always taking initiative, aligning your actions with company goals, and delivering consistent outcomes.
- Strategic and forward-thinking, you balance immediate needs with long-term opportunities to drive impactful, innovative results.
- Your curiosity fuels success, keeping you sharp on industry trends, competition, and our cross-functional business dynamics.
- Adaptable and resourceful, you handle shifting priorities with ease, manage your time effectively, and know when to ask for support.
- You share insights to help the team stay ahead and make informed decisions.
- You bring positivity and resilience to every challenge, tackling obstacles with grit and optimism that inspires those around you.
- You lead with emotional intelligence, building trust, supporting others, encouraging growth, and fostering strong relationships through empathy and collaboration.