Lead Full Stack Developer, Later
Analytics
CA$145-175k
Plus stock options
Influencer marketing and social media management
Job no longer available
Influencer marketing and social media management
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$145-175k
Plus stock options
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
- 5 + years of experience as a full-stack software developer building distributed applications hosted by AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure
- 2 + years of experience as a senior software developer proposing, implementing, and delivering projects you yourself designed
- 1 + years experience managing a team of 2 or more developers
- Proficiency using TypeScript to develop frontend and backend applications. We strongly prefer experience using React, Express.js, Node.js, and NestJS. We also prefer some but don’t require any experience using Ruby on Rails and Kotlin
- Proficiency using SQL to access and store data. We strongly prefer experience using NoSQL databases too
- Effective and instinctive collaboration. You’re accountable, adaptable, growth-oriented, and responsive even in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Intrinsic motivation to continuously improve, and clear sense of fulfillment coaching others
What the job involves
- As a Technical Lead at Later, you will split your time between hands-on technical work and people management for a small team of developers
- Your primary focus will be technical planning, resource allocation, project delivery, and mentorship
- Ideal candidates have proven themselves capable as software developers and eager to learn about a career in technical people management
- At this level, you’ll use your mastery of software development fundamentals to maintain and enhance our platform and to help your team members set and achieve their career growth objectives
- This role is a mix of hands on coding and people leadership
- You’ll deeply understand your product area(s) and the problems your team faces and propose robust solutions
- The Analytics team is focused on social media analytics, brand campaign reports, and calculating ROI, ensuring customers get the insights they need to measure their social media and campaign performance
- The team also manages the storage of analytics data and is responsible for the amalgamation of data across platforms
- Collaborate with your team’s product manager, product designer, and QA developer throughout the software development life cycle
- Collaborate with product management and design to refine future projects and estimate the complexity and feasibility of alternative approaches
- Understand your team’s growth objectives, strengths, and improvement areas to staff projects optimally
- Collaborate with QA to ship reliable features and fixes
- Champion software development best practices, and coach developers to learn them
- Write and review technical designs. Collaborate with other teams’ technical leads to manage dependencies
- Write clean code that’s easy to read, efficient, scalable, secure, and tested
- Use tools like DataDog to monitor performance of your product area(s) to proactively respond to problems and propose improvements
- Understand our CI/CD process to ship code and database migrations
- Mentor your team members:
- Schedule recurring 1-on-1 meetings
- Collaboratively define growth objectives
- Empower your team members to achieve them
- Host biannual performance reviews
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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