Lead Software Engineer, Klaviyo
Events
$188-282k
3+ days a week in office
Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data
Open for applications
Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$188-282k
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give online brands direct ownership of their consumer data and interactions, empowering them to turn transactions with customers into long-term relationships—at scale.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in software development, and strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
- 5+ years of experience testing, developing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
- Hands-on experience designing reliable, fault-tolerant, and high performance distributed systems
- Hands-on experience building components of service oriented architecture
- Hand-on experience writing complex SQL queries
- Experience working with AWS technologies
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- You are a passionate technologist who likes to build and operate large scale distributed systems
- You are deeply interested in database systems, big data platforms and technologies
- You have a strong sense of ownership and can-do attitude
- You strongly believe in collaboration and teamwork
- You believe in continuous learning and sharing knowledge
- You have a funny bone and don’t take yourself too seriously
Desirable
- Experience building and maintaining big data pipelines and a sound understanding of big-data constructs and technologies
- Experience with queuing fundamentals and technologies
- Experience building API-gateways and developing service APIs using REST/GRPC/GraphQL technologies
- Experience working with database internals, specifically query planner and optimizers
What the job involves
- Within the Klaviyo Data Platform area, the focus of the Events team is to manage Klaviyo’s event dataset and enhance it with business-relevant logical schema definitions in order to rapidly manage, analyze and derived insights from customer data
- You will have ownership over designing foundational components within the greater technical vision of Klaviyo’s data storage and access system
- You will help drive technical/architectural evolution of the query area
- You will contribute to all the phases of the software development lifecycle
- You will represent the team in various cross functional projects and initiatives
- You will introduce technical best practices, new design patterns and new software tools/platforms to the team
- You will directly contribute to both writing the code for new components and effectively delegating implementation work as needed
- You will be responsible for mentoring engineers
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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
46% female employees
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Not only we have a good stipend to spend on learning but we also have development days every quarter, where we can switch off and focus on the areas..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2022
$100m
LATE VC
May 2021
$320m
SERIES D
Total funding: $778.5m
Company benefits
- Private health care cover
- All full time employees receive equity
- Commuting allowance for when you do travel to the office,
- A very generous education allowance every year for you to spend on learning and development.
- Participation in Klaviyo ESPP
- Personal lifestyle allowance
- Flexible holiday scheme
Company values
- We always put our customers first.
- We are owners.
- We strive to make the world more equitable.
- We are ambitious.
- We are always learning.
- We collaborate radically.
- We are remarkable.
Company HQ
Financial District, 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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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Klaviyo
Katelyn Nnake (Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)
- At Klaviyo one of our key values is "we strive to make the world more equitable"
- In 2024 over 75% of Klaviyos participated in a Klaviyo Resource Group
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