Lead Full Stack Developer (Analytics)

Later is founded on two success stories that began in 2014: Mavrck, the industry-leading influencer marketing solution (now Later Influence™), and Later, the best social media management platform (now Later Social™) and first-to-market link in bio tool.

We’re trusted by the top social platforms, with partnerships and integrations with Meta, TikTok, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest.

In 2024, Mavrck and Later officially joined together as one unified business, with a shared vision: to enable the world to make a living with their creativity. We’re now on a mission to build the world’s first Social Revenue Platform.

Later will be the first inclusive platform where social media managers, influencer managers, and creators can come together to collaborate on content. We enable marketers to create high-performing content and engage in authentic collaborations with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.

As a trusted partner and go-to source for social media advice, we help create an engaged community for reliable performance and repeatable growth.

About this position:

As a Lead Developer 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, though we expect you to be individually capable as a senior full-stack software developer too.

As the Analytics Team’s Lead Developer, you will lead a small team of offshore developers with 2 + years experience at Later to tell a clear return-on-investment story in each of Later’s products. You will collaborate closely with other teams’ to produce insights that empower users to achieve their influencer marketing and social media marketing objectives.

What you'll be doing:

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’ Lead Developers 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 areas 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.
We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career.

We encourage you to apply if you meet these criteria:

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.
Our approach to compensation:

We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.

Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting. Compensation for some roles is structured as On Target Earnings (OTE = base + commission/variable) while for others it is structured as Salary only.

To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.

Additionally, all permanent team members are granted stock options and are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.

Salary Range: $155,000 - $175,000 USD