Senior Software Engineer, Klaviyo
Backend
$152-228k
3+ days a week in office
Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data
Be an early applicant
Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$152-228k
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
- Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Significant experience with full stack application development
- Able to communicate well
- Able to work with others on a team
- Able to learn continuously and adapt to a high growth environment
- Able to stick with and solve difficult problems
Desirable
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience performance tuning and scaling systems
- Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases
- Schema design
- Normalization / denormalization trade-offs
- Performance
- Operations
- Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
- Experience using Linux operating systems
What the job involves
- The Groups Team is responsible for the segmentation and audience creation functionality in Klaviyo.
- We process and store all of our customer’s data about their customers (profiles) and we allow them to group those profiles into audiences with our powerful segmentation engine.
- They can then send messages to those audiences or use them as a basis for reporting and analytics. We process billions of segment updates in real-time every day
- As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining systems to support core product areas in Klaviyo.
- You will work with a cross functional team to help refine feature specifications, write technical design documents, create system infrastructure, write high quality code, and operate large scale systems in production.
- You will also review other engineer’s designs and code, and provide technical mentorship to other engineers on the team and in the broader engineering organization
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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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.
- Free books policy - if you’re better off for having read it (or listened to it—audiobooks are covered too!) we’ll pay for it.
- Generous and flexible PTO policy
- Participation in Klaviyo ESPP
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 2023 over 75% of Klaviyos participated in a Klaviyo Resource Group
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