Senior Software Engineer, Muck Rack

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software
• Strong experience working across frontend and backend systems and independently delivering features throughout the application stack
• Proficiency with Python or a similar programming language and experience with Django or a comparable web framework
• Experience building polished, maintainable user-facing applications with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript framework
• Experience with Elasticsearch or a comparable search technology, or significant experience working with data-intensive systems
• Experience making technical trade-offs within complex production systems while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term quality
• Experience diagnosing production issues and contributing to the reliability and operational health of the systems you build
• Experience with TypeScript in a large codebase
• Experience with design systems or shared component libraries
• Flexibility to adjust working hours for overlap with teammates in US time zones
• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
• Take ownership of problems and drive work forward independently while knowing when to involve others
• Take pride in building readable, testable, maintainable software while making pragmatic technical trade-offs
• Approach ambiguous or complex problems thoughtfully and use sound judgment to identify effective solutions
• Contribute to a strong engineering culture through thoughtful code reviews, knowledge sharing, feedback, and continuous improvement
• Proactively incorporates AI tools into day-to-day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help build and evolve the customer-facing search experiences that help users discover relevant, high-quality content, along with the backend systems that power them. You’ll work across the stack, with a slight emphasis on frontend development, and collaborate closely with engineers, Product, and Design to deliver intuitive search experiences backed by reliable, scalable search and data systems
• Own and deliver customer-facing search features and workflows across frontend and backend systems, from technical planning through production
• Build AI-powered product experiences end to end, from the services behind them to the interfaces that make their output useful and trustworthy
• Build intuitive, responsive user experiences using Vue while contributing to the Python and Django services that power them
• Design and improve search, indexing, and retrieval systems that support high-quality content discovery across large volumes of data
• Build and maintain features and data workflows that leverage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, and MySQL
• Make thoughtful technical decisions and trade-offs that balance customer experience, delivery speed, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and engineering teammates to shape solutions, clarify requirements, and deliver high-quality customer experiences
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive improvements to the performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability of the systems you work on
• Participate in an on-call and incident response rotation, helping diagnose and resolve production issues and improve system reliability over time

• Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision
• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
• A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
• Peer interviews with several team members
• 30-minute Bar Raiser