Remote Staff Engineer, Brand Platform Architect

LTK USA; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) with company matching

Summer Fridays

Flexible PTO

Remote-first environment

Job summary

LTK is seeking a Staff Engineer to strengthen the Brand team's technical leadership. You will lead architecture, strategy, and delivery of complex initiatives, partnering with product, design, data, and platform teams to ensure the Brand 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 mentor engineers to raise the engineering bar while maintaining platform health and

Qualifications

• 8+ 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Observability

Operational excellence

Job description

LTK is seeking a Staff Engineer to strengthen the Brand team's technical leadership. You will lead architecture, strategy, and delivery of complex initiatives, partnering with product, design, data, and platform teams to ensure the Brand 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 mentor engineers to raise the engineering bar while maintaining platform health and