Staff Engineer, Brand

Ltk; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with LTK matching

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave

Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO

Job summary

LTK seeks a Staff Engineer to strengthen the Brand team's technical leadership and architecture. You will lead cross-team initiatives, define architecture, and guide strategic, high-impact work that enables scalable, reliable experiences for Brands and Creators.

You will partner with product, design, data, and platform teams to translate ambiguous needs into technical direction, establish patterns, and mentor engineers while advancing observability and deployment readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience and leadership across distributed systems.
• Proven success as Staff/Principal engineer or equivalent.
• Strong design skills balancing performance, reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the Brand platform and initiatives.
• Define and evolve architecture for cross-team product and platform efforts.
• Lead discovery through delivery of critical projects.
• Align technical decisions with customer and business outcomes.
• Establish scalable patterns, APIs, and boundaries for reliable delivery.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.
• Strengthen platform observability and operational readiness.
• Translate business needs into actionable technical plans.
• Drive AI-native engineering practices across the Brand platform.

Skills

8+ years experience

Systems design

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

AI-assisted development

Architecture strategy

Mentorship

Observability

Dev tooling

Tools

AI tools

CI/CD

Job description

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.

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.


• Lead the adoption of AI-native engineering practices across the Brand platform, using coding agents and AI-assisted tools to accelerate investigation, technical design, implementation, testing, code review, documentation, and operational response.


• Create the conditions for high-quality agent-assisted delivery by improving repository context, technical specifications, development environments, CI pipelines, test strategies, and feedback loops.


• Direct multiple streams of agent-assisted work where appropriate, decomposing complex initiatives into well-scoped tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and remaining accountable for everything that reaches production.


• Establish practical evaluation and validation mechanisms for AI-assisted workflows, including automated checks, targeted human review, security controls, observability, and production feedback.


• Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to reduce engineering toil, improve developer experience, increase test coverage, and shorten the path from an ambiguous problem to a reliable customer outcome.


• Share what works through architecture guidance, reusable patterns, documentation, mentoring, and hands-on coaching so AI-native practices scale beyond individual power users.

What you will bring to LTK

• 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.


• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools or coding agents as part of a real engineering workflow, with the judgment to know when to trust, constrain, test, or reject their output.


• Experience shaping software-development processes that help engineers and AI agents collaborate effectively—for example, through clear technical context, specifications, automated tests, CI feedback, evaluation harnesses, or repeatable development environments.


• A track record of improving engineering leverage through automation, developer tooling, platform capabilities, or workflow redesign—not merely adopting tools in isolation.


• Strong instincts for the risks of AI-assisted delivery, including incorrect or insecure output, dependency and data exposure, insufficient test coverage, nondeterministic behavior, and unclear ownership.


• Comfort measuring whether new engineering practices improve outcomes such as cycle time, quality, reliability, maintainability, developer experience, or customer impact.


• 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


• 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 Leave


• Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO


• For temporary full-time employees, benefits eligibility may vary

About LTK

Founded 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.

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LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #LI-Remote