Staff Software Engineer, Conductor
Backend
$160-190k
Search & content intelligence platform
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Search & content intelligence platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-190k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform marketing into a force for improving people’s lives.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is passionate about solving problems, influencing strategic thinking, and mentoring others within the team
- Completed studies in Computer Science, Mathematics, engineering or a related field or equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with experience in product-driven companies
- Strong expertise in system design, distributed computing, and scalable architecture patterns for handling large datasets and high-throughput applications
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages with strong Python coding skills. Experience with Java is highly valued
- Strong database experience including both SQL and NoSQL systems, with knowledge of data modeling and optimization techniques
- Experience with AI/ML technologies including LLMs, vector databases (e.g., Milvus), embeddings, and ML frameworks
- Knowledge of MLOps practices, model deployment, and AI system integration in production environments
- Experience working across the full software development lifecycle including CI/CD, monitoring, testing, and production deployment
- Proven track record of technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering excellence within teams
- Up-to-date with rapidly-evolving technologies and demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt new tools and frameworks
- Analytical, proactive, structural and implementation-oriented thinking, combined with a solution- and goal-oriented hands-on personality, who is comfortable working across stacks in an organization without silos and taking ownership of end-to-end problem-solving
- Professional verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Engineering Director, the successful candidate will take on a strategic leadership role in designing, developing, and implementing innovative solutions to our customers' problems, while adhering to the standards and principles of our R&D department
- The Staff Engineer will work closely with AI/ML engineers, product managers, application developers, UI/UX designers, and other stakeholders to create scalable, high-performance, reliable, and secure SaaS applications
- Reporting to the Engineering Director
- Lead the technical architecture, design, and implementation of large-scale distributed systems and data platforms to support customer needs and business growth
- Oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of complex engineering projects, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices and quality standards
- Design and build scalable, high-performance backend systems and APIs that handle millions of requests and large datasets efficiently
- Architect robust data processing pipelines and ETL workflows using modern cloud technologies and distributed computing frameworks
- Drive technical decision-making across the engineering organization, evaluating trade-offs and establishing engineering standards and practices
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with product, AI/ML engineering, data engineering, and infrastructure teams to deliver comprehensive solutions
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and deployment automation to ensure reliable software delivery
- Implement AI/ML capabilities including LLM integration, vector databases, and intelligent content processing workflows
- Mentor senior and junior engineers, fostering technical excellence and knowledge sharing within the engineering organization
Our take
The internet is increasingly becoming a walled garden, with content and vital market intelligence hidden away on social media sites, gaming environments and apps. And with increasing regulaion in the data protection space such as GDPR, it can be harder for marketing teams to gain insight into what potential customers exist, and what they want.
Conductor exists to change that. Taking advantage of the power of search ("No one ever lies to a search engine", in the words of the company's CEO and co-founder), it utilises data from search traffic to help marketing teams build more effective campaigns. Able to help optimize search results, track keyword rankings and measure performance, it has led to doubling the rate of conversions and site traffic among its customer base, which includes the likes of Citibank, athenahealth and Canon.
With a record of substantial funding and growing revenue from its customer base, Conductor is continuing to invest in its technology, making strategic acquisitions to help it expand. For instance its acquisition of ContentKing allowed it to add real-time website auditing and monitoring to its platform, and its 2023 acquisition of Searchmetrics is aimed at accelerating its growth in Europe. As the SEO space enters a period of consolodation it seems that Conductor is well positioned to remain at the top of the search results.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Oct 2017
$7m
SERIES D
Total funding: $216.6m
Company benefits
- Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
- Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
- Perks & Discounts
- Professional Development Benefits
- Retirement and Stock Option Benefits
- Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Seth Besmertnik
(CEO)Previously CEO of LinkExperts (market leader in link building for Fortune 500 brands).
Jeremy Duboys
(Founder)With a BA in Media Studies, they went onto become a Founder for many companies such as Professional Taste Printing, Prinly/All Business Cards and most recently RxGo.com/Medication Discount Card LLC.
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