Staff Engineer, Brand
LTK
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Job summary
LTK is seeking a Staff Engineer to strengthen the Brand team's technical leadership. You will drive architecture, direction, and execution of strategic initiatives with product, design, data, and platform partners, ensuring the platform scales with evolving business needs.
As a senior technical leader, you will mentor engineers, raise the engineering bar, and maintain platform health through observability and robust practices while translating ambiguous business needs into clear technical
Qualifications
- Senior technical leader with proven architecture and delivery of distributed systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving cross-team initiatives.
- Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across the Brand platform for strategic initiatives.
- Define and evolve architecture for cross-team product and platform efforts.
- Lead technical strategy, decomposition, and execution from discovery to delivery.
- Partner with product, design, data, and platform teams to align decisions with outcomes.
- Establish scalable patterns, APIs, and system boundaries to improve reliability.
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Job description
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.
- 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.
- 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
Position Title : Staff Engineer, Brand
Location: Remote from the U.S.
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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 Leave
- Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO
- For temporary full-time employees, benefits eligibility may vary
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.
To empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.
- Here to win
- Commit to the journey
- Work well
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.
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