Lead Software Engineer @ Klaviyo

Lead Software Engineer

Posted on 2/16/2023

INACTIVE

1,001-5,000 employees

Growth marketing automation platform

Company Overview

Klaviyo's missions is to help companies retain customers and maximize their ROI. Klaviyo’s data–proven customer platform allows companies to send relevant, well–timed emails and SMS that increase lifetime values.

Locations

Cambridge, MA, USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Celery

Django

MySQL

RabbitMQ

React.js

Redis

REST APIs

Python

CategoriesNew

Software Engineering

Requirements

Python
Django REST Framework, Django
React, React Query
MySQL
Redis
Memcached
RabbitMQ / Celery
7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
Significant experience with full stack application development
Experience working with both monolithic and microservices architectures
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Experience debugging performance issues and improving application performance

Responsibilities

This is a newly formed team, so incoming members will be responsible for building the foundation of the developer experience at Klaviyo. You will have an opportunity to make a major impact on the direction and priorities of the team
As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for building and managing Klaviyo's integration settings pages, API services that communicate with 3rd-party vendor APIs, data transformation of data flowing between Klaviyo and the 3rd-party vendor, as well as wiring up the API Services into a number of data pipelines. These pipelines range from webhook processing to periodic data syncs to syncing data back to the vendor. Additional responsibilities include providing quality PR reviews for our code-owned areas of the application, participating in architectural design decisions, collaborating with product owners and providing technical expertise on upcoming Product Specifications, and acting in a project lead capacity to make sure that work is well-defined, estimated, and planned accordingly

Desired Qualifications

Experience working with Service Oriented Architecture (preferably in Python)
Experience working with RESTful applications/APIs
Experience with mentoring junior developers
Experience with highly available, scaling systems

At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit careers.klaviyo.com to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.

Team Overview:

The Integrations, Enrichment team is responsible for building and maintaining Klaviyo’s integrations to a multitude of 3rd party vendors. These vendors can be grouped across a number of verticals ranging from e-commerce to help desk to payment processing. In order to enable our customers to integrate with these different vendors we provide easy-to-use interfaces that guide our customers through the setup and management of an integration. Behind the scenes, we use a variety of different pipelines to process data flowing to and from the vendor at scale.

Responsibilities:

This is a newly formed team, so incoming members will be responsible for building the foundation of the developer experience at Klaviyo. You will have an opportunity to make a major impact on the direction and priorities of the team.

As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for building and managing Klaviyo’s integration settings pages, API services that communicate with 3rd-party vendor APIs, data transformation of data flowing between Klaviyo and the 3rd-party vendor, as well as wiring up the API Services into a number of data pipelines. These pipelines range from webhook processing to periodic data syncs to syncing data back to the vendor. Additional responsibilities include providing quality PR reviews for our code-owned areas of the application, participating in architectural design decisions, collaborating with product owners and providing technical expertise on upcoming Product Specifications, and acting in a project lead capacity to make sure that work is well-defined, estimated, and planned accordingly.

Team Tech Stack:

Python,
Django REST Framework, Django
React, React Query
MySQL
Redis
Memcached
RabbitMQ / Celery

Required Skills:

7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
Significant experience with full stack application development
Experience working with both monolithic and microservices architectures
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Experience debugging performance issues and improving application performance

Preferred Skills:

Experience working with Service Oriented Architecture (preferably in Python)
Experience working with RESTful applications/APIs
Experience with mentoring junior developers
Experience with highly available, scaling systems.

Get to Know Klaviyo

We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.

Upon request, you can receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role. Requests can be submitted here. Additional information regarding benefits can be found at klaviyorewards.com.

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