Software Engineer, Klaviyo
Editors
$120-180k
3 days a week in office
The B2C CRM
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$120-180k
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Klaviyo is the only CRM built for B2C brands. Powered by its built-in data platform and AI insights, Klaviyo combines marketing automation, analytics, and customer service into one unified solution, making it easy for businesses to know their customers and grow faster.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced in full-stack development with strong hands-on skills in React, Redux, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, along with familiarity with general web best practices
- Has a track record of delivering and shipping work powered by or accelerated through AI
- 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role
- Proficient in Python and Django (or similar backend technologies), and comfortable working across large codebases and multiple layers of the stack
- Familiar with automated testing practices and frameworks, including end-to-end and integration tests (e.g., cypress, pytest)
- Experienced with RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and evolving APIs and data models to support product success
- You take ownership of your work—from requirements and edge cases to implementation and testing—and are motivated by solving tough problems with others
- Proven track record of leading complex, multi-quarter projects involving cross-team collaboration
- You know when to reach for tools like queues, caches, CDNs, and web workers to solve performance and scaling challenges
- Collaborative, communicative, and eager to learn and share knowledge
What the job involves
- The Editors team is responsible for building common reusable components for the message editor. This team powers all the editors at Klaviyo
- This team focuses on building intuitive and powerful interfaces to create highly customizable and dynamic content ranging from product feeds, real time event data, and more. This product area is core to Klaviyo’s continued success
- As a Software Engineer II on the team, you’ll play a key role in designing and building scalable systems that power our editor experiences across all the editors
- Partnering closely with product managers and technical product owners, you’ll help define scope, translate ideas into practical implementations, and build intuitive editing tools that delight our users
- This role leans frontend, with a strong focus on crafting thoughtful, reusable components and seamless user experiences using technologies like TypeScript, React, Python, and Django. There are ample opportunities for growth given the scope of this role and the team’s central role in Klaviyo’s product
- Over the past year, our team has enhanced the editor interfaces with impactful features that our customers love—and they’re eager to see that same power brought to other mobile experiences
- Looking ahead, we’ll be investing in new editor blocks, a personalization builder, in-canvas editing, and content generation powered by AI. You’ll contribute directly to these efforts, helping Klaviyo extend its best-in-class editing tools across platforms
- You will be a core member of the Editors team, working on impactful customer-facing features that will make our product the best in the industry
- You will work on creating easy-to-use editors that are highly performant
- You will work closely with Product, Design, and Data Science to provide the best experience for our customers
- Technologies We Use (not exhaustive):
- React, TypeScript, Redux
- Python, Django
- MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, ProxySQL
- Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.), Terraform, and other DevOps tools
Our take
Klaviyo is a marketing firm helping growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing campaigns. From personalised newsletters to automated emails when customers abandon their shopping carts, the marketing automation platform makes it easy for businesses to capture, store, analyze, and predictively use their own data to drive measurable, high-value outcomes.
Klaviyo's CEO, Bialecki, believes that the main problem with e-mail marketing today is that there is a divide between two kinds of tools: analytics tools that help you understand what people are doing on a website, such as what products they are considering, and messaging tools that send them a marketing e-mail. Operating primarily within the retail and eCommerce industry, Klaviyo aims to solve this by offering a tool that brings together analytics and messaging. This allows companies to bring all of their first-party data into a single platform to get a deep understanding of their customers and then activate that data to deliver highly-targeted, personalised communications through email and SMS. In the process, Klaviyo's customers get a deep understanding of their consumers.
Klaviyo is a fast-growing company mainly due to its business model - the firm offers a concrete ROI for Klaviyo’s clients if the software persuades customers to make purchases by treating different types of customers differently. An IPO in 2023 has led to Klaviyo's release of Klaviyo AI, which empowers businesses to unlock revenue-driving opportunities and deliver exceptional customer experiences across channels. Still in its early days of public listing, it will be interesting to see how Klaviyo fares in the years to come.
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Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Lifestyle spending account
- Commuter benefits
- Modern Health - wellness platform
- Parental leave
- Company equity
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
- Dental insurance
- Vision coverage through EyeMed
- Health savings account (HSA)
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Flexible paid time off (FPTO)
- 13 company holidays
- Paid parental bonding leave
Company values
- Put customers first: We prioritize our customers > customers’ customers > team > ourselves. We empathize deeply with our customers by walking in their shoes and solving their greatest pain points. We start with what’s best for the customer, not what’s best for us, and work backwards, delivering experiences our customers will talk about.
- Win together: We’re one team, we get to know each other, we’re okay with conflict and willing to disagree and commit. We are honest, direct, transparent, and respectful. We seek and incorporate diverse perspectives and assume good intent.
- We’re 1% done: We’re just getting started – our greatest products, work, and achievements are in front of us. We have a beginner’s mindset – we see the opportunities to build and improve and have the ambition to go after them. We benchmark against the best, aim to beat them, and celebrate when we do.
- Know the score: We’re clear about what success is for each project and how it ladders to our overall success. Results are what matter. Working hard is required, but it’s not success. We use data and past performance to motivate our future strategy.
- Be meticulous in your craft: We seek to do work so good that people rave about it. We are rigorous, thorough and prepared. We are or expect to be the experts everyone in the world turns to.
- Move fast, no shortcuts: Speed matters. We set ambitious deadlines, we like short cycles and being first to market. We don’t skip critical steps or requirements to make a date. We’re comfortable living in the grey and making judgment calls to decide what’s required and what’s not.
- Drivers wanted: No passengers — we’re proactive and engaged, and if we see something wrong it’s our responsibility to fix it or raise the issue to its owner. Have a vision and make sure it’s compelling. No job is beneath us. If it needs to get done, we’re happy to pick it up. We use and spend resources like they’re our own.
- Stay hungry, stay humble: We are insatiably curious learners; our slopes are very high. If we don’t know something, we’re world- class at figuring it out. We take calculated risks and sometimes make mistakes — we’re not perfect. When we fail, we learn from it and improve going forward. Feedback is a gift, even if it hurts sometimes. We don’t tolerate brilliant jerks.
Company HQ
Boston, MA
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Leadership
Andrew Bialecki
(CEO)Previously CTO at RockTech, Senior Engineer at Performable, Lead Engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies and an SDET Intern at Microsoft
Ed Hallen
(Chief Product Officer)Currently an Advisor at Team Engine. Previously worked in Enterprise Business Development at Google, Summer Associate at Accel-KKR and Principal at Applied Predictive Technologies.
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