Software Development Co-op, Later
React + Node/NestJS + Agentic Development
$4,000 per month
Influencer marketing and social media management
Be an early applicant
Influencer marketing and social media management
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$4,000 per month
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help the world's top brands create high-performing social content and collaborate with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.
Role
Who you are
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Coursework or project experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
- Hands‑on experience building React applications (class projects, personal projects, hackathons, etc.)
- Familiarity with Node.js; experience with NestJS is a plus but not required
- Understanding of REST APIs, JSON, and asynchronous programming
- Experience using ReactQuery/TanStack Query or similar data‑fetching/state tools
- Comfort working with external APIs and handling varied data formats
- Curiosity about agentic development, LLM‑powered workflows, or tool‑calling patterns
- Interest in applying models for classification, tagging, or inference tasks
- Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter—prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear
- Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights
- Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast—challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement
- Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive—removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high
- Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth
- Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity
Desirable
- Exposure to social media APIs or creator‑economy tools
- Experience with TypeScript end‑to‑end (React + Node)
- Familiarity with prompt engineering or model‑driven automation
- Understanding of basic ML concepts (classification, embeddings, etc.)
- Experience building dashboards or data‑rich UI components
What the job involves
- Build responsive, component‑driven React front‑end features using modern tooling
- Develop and maintain backend endpoints using Node.js and NestJS
- Integrate with first- and third‑party APIs (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc.) to fetch, normalize, and aggregate data
- Implement state management and data‑fetching patterns using ReactQuery/TanStack Query
- Use agentic development practices to design workflows that call models or tools autonomously
- Work with ML‑powered inference to classify data
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and iterative product development
- Real-world experience building production features with modern frameworks
- Mentorship from engineers working on distributed systems, data pipelines, and agentic workflows
- Exposure to the creator economy, social API ecosystems, and model‑driven classification
- A portfolio of shipped features and measurable impact
Our take
Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok have become indispensable for businesses of all sizes, shaping their marketing strategies and driving success. Later specializes in assisting customers in navigating these channels. Offering a visually oriented suite of tools, the marketing platform enables marketing managers to schedule, analyze, and track sales from their content effectively.
Focusing on small businesses, Later is doubling down on its strategy, aiming to provide additional products tailored for marketers at these enterprises while expanding its geographic reach. This expansion of product capabilities not only caters to the evolving needs of small businesses but also helps Later mitigate platform risk from social media companies mimicking its services. Partnerships with platforms like TikTok and Instagram, featuring post scheduling, analytics, and conversation tools, showcase Later's commitment to innovation and staying ahead in the competitive landscape.
Now, the company is entering an exciting new chapter with updates designed to help marketers and creators stay ahead of what's next in social. The platform now offers enhanced analytics, improved collaboration tools, expanded support for platforms like Threads and Snapchat, and smarter insights through innovations such as Future Trends. These developments show Later's commitment to making social media management more intuitive, data-driven, and impactful so brands and creators can build stronger connections and lead the next era in social storytelling.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2015
$1.2m
SEED
Dec 2014
$1.3m
SEED
Total funding: $3.8m
Company benefits
- Learning & development opportunities
- Market competitive compensation
- Hybrid work environment
- Flexible paid time off
- Competitive healthcare benefits
Company HQ
Government Center, Boston, MA
Leadership
Scott Sutton
(CEO)Scott joined lAter in 2023 as COO, becoming CEO in 2024. Previously, he spent 4 years at ZoomInfo, joining as VP of Revenue Operations before becoming Senior VP of Operations and then CBO.
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