Staff Engineer, Brand
ltkMadison (WI)
About the role
LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a huge opportunity ahead of us and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate and disrupt an industry. We empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry — a game changer when it comes to career growth.
Position Title: Staff Engineer, Brand
Location: Remote from the U.S. #LI-Remote #LI-CW1
About the role:
LTK is seeking a Staff Engineer to strengthen the technical leadership of the Brand team. Staff Engineers on the team lead the architecture, technical direction, and execution of strategic, complex, and business-critical initiatives. You will partner with product, design, data, and platform teams to solve high-impact problems and ensure the platform can reliably support evolving business needs. As a senior technical leader, you will bring clarity to ambiguous initiatives; establish durable patterns across teams; and maintain the overall health of the Brand platform. This role expands technical-leadership coverage across Brand while helping LTK deliver reliable, scalable experiences that support our Brands and Creators.
How you will make an impact:
- Provide technical leadership across the Brand platform, leading strategic, complex, and business-critical initiatives wherever they arise.
- Define and evolve architecture for complex, cross-team product and platform initiatives.
- Lead the technical strategy, decomposition, and execution of critical projects from discovery through delivery.
- Partner with product, design, data, and platform teams to align technical decisions with customer, platform-health, and business outcomes.
- Establish scalable patterns, APIs, and system boundaries that enable teams to move quickly while improving reliability and maintainability.
- Identify and reduce technical risks, dependencies, and sources of operational complexity before they become delivery constraints.
- Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, technical coaching, and mentorship of engineers and emerging technical leaders.
- Maintain overall platform health by strengthening observability, quality practices, operational readiness, and cross-team execution.
- Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical direction, practical milestones, and durable solutions. What you will bring to LTK8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading the architecture and delivery of complex, distributed systems.
- Demonstrated success operating as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leader across multiple teams or domains.
- Strong systems-design skills, including the ability to make pragmatic architectural tradeoffs across performance, reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.
- Experience leading high-impact initiatives that require coordination across engineering, product, design, data, and platform partners.
- A track record of turning ambiguous product and business problems into clear technical strategies and executable plans.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct authority.
- A coaching mindset and demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and grow technical leadership across teams.
- Commitment to engineering excellence, including quality, operational ownership, observability, and continuous improvement.
- A mindset focused on seizing opportunities and moving with urgency
- Dedication to fierce prioritization and operational excellence
- Adaptability to a dynamic, fast-moving environment
- A growth mindset and openness to feedback
- What we offer for full-time salaried employees
- The opportunity to be part of the leading global company in creator commerce
- A remote-first, productivity-first environment
- Competitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family 401(k) with LTK company matching
- Medical Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance
- Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity LeaveSummer Fridays and Flexible PTOFor temporary full-time employees, benefits eligibility may vary
About LTKFounded in 2011, LTK is the global technology platform purpose-built to empower lifestyle creators to monetize their content. The full-service platform connects brands, creators, and shoppers with a world-class shopping app and trusted tools and technology that make content instantly shoppable. Today, premium lifestyle creators in 160+ countries drive more than $5 billion+ in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 40 million consumers turn to LTK Shops in the LTK shopping platform each month to find inspiration and instantly shop the styles recommended by their favorite creators. More than 8,000 retailers and 1M brands partner with LTK to gain access to its global creator network for content that converts against performance-driven, cross-channel KPIs. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and currently operates on five continents.
Our mission:
To empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.
Our values:
- Here to win
- Commit to the journey
- Work well
Commitment to diversity:
LTK believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental obligations that strengthen our team. We employ a diverse, multi-disciplinary team to build a meaningful company and culture. For US-Based Roles: We are not offering new sponsorships opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H-1B; authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of LTK are considered the property of LTK and are not subject to payment of agency fees. LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #LI-Remote
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