Later is the enterprise leader in social media and influencer marketing software, services, and data, trusted by leading brands and agencies worldwide. Following our acquisition of Mavely, the Everyday Influencer Platform®, Later enables brands to scale creator partnerships from nano to premium influencers while managing social media content and campaigns across all major social and affiliate networks. Through proprietary performance data, marketing leaders can drive attributable sales and optimize social commerce with our software platform or award-winning services.
Later is founded on two success stories that began in 2014: Mavrck, the industry-leading influencer marketing solution (now Later Influence™), and Later, the best social media management platform (now Later Social™) and first-to-market link in bio tool, Later Link in Bio. In 2024, Mavrck and Later officially joined together as one unified business, with a shared vision: to enable the world to make a living with their creativity.
We’re trusted by the top social platforms, with partnerships and integrations with Meta, TikTok, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.
We enable marketers to create high-performing content and engage in authentic collaborations with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.
About this position:
We are seeking a Staff Developer with a strong background in modern web development technologies and a passion for building high-quality, scalable applications. The ideal candidate will be a problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes ownership of their work.
What you'll be doing:
- Ability to scope, plan, and lead large projects, with previous experience in delivering significant features and roadmap items. You have delivered multiple large features in a code base and understand how codebases evolve over time.
- Experience communicating across teams, reaching out to stakeholders across the business. You feel comfortable reaching out on Slack or email to someone you haven’t worked with yet to start a conversation about a feature or bug.
- Ability to understand, clarify, and refine requirements in a rapidly growing business. You’re comfortable with some ambiguous requirements and you understand that different stakeholders have different priorities. You’re able to navigate competing interests to deliver features that delight users.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical and non technical thoughts throughout the organization. You are comfortable speaking up in meetings and non technical folks feel comfortable working with you.
- Being the go-to person for solving unknown problems and delivering solutions. When something breaks, your coworkers look to you as the expert for digging in and fixing issues. Nothing is too hard for you to tackle.
- Continuously improving the code base and upholding a high engineering culture of PR reviews, architecture patterns, and coding styles. You understand best principles for code reviews, idiomatic code patterns in at least one language, and you known best practices for testing and deployment.
We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career. If you identify with any of the following, we encourage you to apply!
- Frontend Development: Strong proficiency in React and Typescript. Knowledge of Ember.js is a plus.
- Backend Development: Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, specifically: Ruby on Rails and Node.js.
- Database Knowledge: Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases, specifically MySQL and DynamoDB.
- API Management: Expertise with integrating third-party APIs and managing them in a proactive manner.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms.
- System Design & Architecture: Experience with designing scalable, maintainable, and secure system architectures.
- Performance Optimization: Expertise in profiling and optimizing applications for performance and scalability.
- Security Practices: In-depth knowledge of application and infrastructure security best practices.
- DevOps: Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and YAML configuration.
- Testing: Knowledge of test automation and quality assurance practices.
- Containerization: Experience with Docker (Kubernetes is a plus).
- AI/ML Applications: Broader experience in implementing AI/ML solutions in production beyond AI-powered development tools.
- Mentorship: Ability to coach and mentor junior team members, and influence others without authority.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with social networking platforms
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and implementations
- Interest and experience in AI-powered development tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.)
- Experience with DataDog or similar monitoring solutions
- Experience with iterative and rapid development methodologies
How you work:
- You’re proactive and results-driven, always taking initiative, aligning your actions with company goals, and delivering consistent outcomes.
- Strategic and forward-thinking, you balance immediate needs with long-term opportunities to drive impactful, innovative results.
- Your curiosity fuels success, keeping you sharp on industry trends, competition, and our cross-functional business dynamics.
- Adaptable and resourceful, you handle shifting priorities with ease, manage your time effectively, and know when to ask for support.
- You share insights to help the team stay ahead and make informed decisions.
- You bring positivity and resilience to every challenge, tackling obstacles with grit and optimism that inspires those around you.
- You lead with emotional intelligence, building trust, supporting others, encouraging growth, and fostering strong relationships through empathy and collaboration.
Our approach to compensation:
We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.
Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.
To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.
Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.
Salary Range:
$ 180,000 - $215,000
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Where we work
We have offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; Chicago, IL; and Vancouver, WA. For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. We post our positions in the location(s) where we are open to having the successful candidate be located.
Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and building teams for culture add rather than culture fit. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Please let us know if you require any accommodations or support during the recruitment process.
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