Lead Software Engineer, Klaviyo

Payment Systems

$192-288k

React
Python
Django
Redis
MySQL
RabbitMQ
Celery
NetSuite
Senior and Expert level
Boston

1+ day a week in office

Klaviyo

Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data

Be an early applicant

Klaviyo

Intelligent marketing automation powered by customer data

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingContenteCommerce

Be an early applicant

$192-288k

React
Python
Django
Redis
MySQL
RabbitMQ
Celery
NetSuite
Senior and Expert level
Boston

1+ day a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BMarketingContenteCommerce

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

  • Experience building and improving financial systems of record and data exchange pipelines
  • Experience improving the visibility and accuracy of key financial data from a compliance and auditability standpoint
  • Experience working with various architectures, frameworks, and systems
  • Hands-on experience designing reliable, fault-tolerant, and high performance distributed systems
  • Significant experience with full stack application development
  • Experience debugging performance issues and improving application performance
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Proven experience with being a coach and a mentor for team members and helping them grow

Desirable

  • Experience with Stripe, Avalara, and Netsuite
  • Experience with SFDC
  • Experience managing or leading small teams

What the job involves

  • The Auditbility, Compliance, and Exchange team works hand in hand with our existing Payments team to ensure the accuracy of our internal financial record keeping, as well as providing and assisting with data exchange pipelines and ETL processes between highly secure financial systems of record
  • They are partners who help to bridge the gap between the needs of our sales and finance teams, our Payments product engineering teams, and our customers themselves
  • Our Lead Engineer role for this time is our first hire, and is someone who will need to wear many hats as the team ramps up
  • Your primary responsibilities will be to work closely with our existing Payments team as you understand the details and challenges of our existing compliance and data exchange needs, as you work to make progress into our and further define the team's roadmap
  • The right candidate is detail oriented, obsesses over data accuracy, and has a strong fundamental understanding of why keeping our internal financial data compliant and auditable matters to the business and to our customers, and is motivated to own and drive work in this space
  • You’ll also be chiefly involved in helping to build the team out via hiring and interviewing, and have the opportunity to lead and manage the team as it becomes fully operational

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

Leadership

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

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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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