Senior Software Engineer (SEO)

Kake; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay in USD

Fully remote

Better Me Fund

Social good community

Job summary

Kake is seeking a Senior SEO/GEO Software Engineer to build systems that help our websites get crawled, rendered, indexed and surfaced by search engines and AI-powered answer engines. This is a hands-on role focused on technical SEO, site performance and automation.

You will create internal tools to automate SEO at scale, fix technical issues, and collaborate with marketing, content and product teams to ship improvements fast and reliably.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 3+ years focused on SEO/GEO.
• Solid understanding of how search engines crawl, render and index websites.
• Hands-on experience with technical SEO, including redirects, canonicalization, structured data and Core Web Vitals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems that help search engines crawl, render and index our websites.
• Fix technical SEO issues such as broken redirects, URL structure and duplicate content (including canonical tags).
• Optimize Core Web Vitals and site performance, including page speed.
• Build internal tools and scripts to automate SEO tasks, such as bulk meta tag updates, log file analysis and schema validation.
• Build systems to create and publish high-quality content programmatically.
• Partner with marketing, content and product teams to prioritize and ship SEO improvements.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical SEO

Crawling & indexing

Core Web Vitals

Automation tooling

English communication

Tools

Google Search Console

Screaming Frog

Ahrefs

Semrush

Job description

We're looking for a Senior SEO/GEO Software Engineer to build the systems and tools that help our websites get crawled, rendered, indexed and surfaced by both traditional search engines and AI-powered answer engines. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on technical SEO, site performance and automation. You'll fix the technical foundations of our sites, build internal tools that automate SEO work at scale, and create systems to publish high-quality content programmatically. Strong programming skills, a solid grasp of technical SEO and an AI-forward mindset are key to success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems that help search engines crawl, render and index our websites.
• Fix technical SEO issues such as broken redirects, URL structure and duplicate content (including canonical tags).
• Optimize Core Web Vitals and site performance, including page speed.
• Build internal tools and scripts to automate SEO tasks, such as bulk meta tag updates, log file analysis and schema validation.
• Build systems to create and publish high-quality content programmatically.
• Partner with marketing, content and product teams to prioritize and ship SEO improvements.

Core Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, including 3+ years focused on SEO/GEO.
• Solid understanding of how search engines crawl, render and index websites.
• Hands-on experience with technical SEO, including redirects, canonicalization, structured data and Core Web Vitals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with programmatic SEO and publishing content at scale.
• Familiarity with GEO / Generative Engine Optimization and how content is surfaced in AI-generated responses.
• Experience with tools such as Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, Ahrefs or Semrush.

Additional

• US Timezone Overlap: 6-7h with PST.
• Strong curiosity about AI and its impact on search and digital discovery.

Why Join Kake?

Kake is a remote-first company with a global community - fully believing that it's not where your table is, but what you bring to the table that matters. We provide top-tier engineering teams to support some of the world's most innovative companies, and we've built a culture where great people stay, grow, and thrive. We're proud to be more than just a stop along the way in your career - we're the destination.

The icing on the Kake:

• Competitive Pay in USD - Work globally, get paid globally.
• Fully Remote - Simply put, we trust you.
• Better Me Fund - We invest in your personal growth and passions.
• Compassion is Badass - Join a community that invests in social good.