Senior Software Engineer, Muck Rack

Back-End Content

$140-170k

React
AWS
Python
Django
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Postgres
Airflow
MySQL
Luigi
Celery
Senior level
Remote in Canada, US
Muck Rack

Public Relations software

Job no longer available

Muck Rack

Public Relations software

201-500 employees

B2BMarketingCommunicationSaaSMedia

Job no longer available

$140-170k

React
AWS
Python
Django
Kafka
Elasticsearch
Postgres
Airflow
MySQL
Luigi
Celery
Senior level
Remote in Canada, US

201-500 employees

B2BMarketingCommunicationSaaSMedia

Company mission

To transform the way companies engage with the media.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years total professional experience as a software engineer
  • Django or significant web experience in a similar framework
  • Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team members
  • Exhibit a willingness to learn in areas where they have less experience with our tech stack
  • Take pride in the quality of their code. (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python.)
  • Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys
  • Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs
  • Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition

Desirable

  • Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data
  • Experience with MySQL (or Postgres) and/or ElasticSearch
  • Any combination of the following: experience with Celery, Luigi or Airflow, Kafka, AWS, NLP, data model performance tuning, content extraction, application performance tuning
  • Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (like Vue or React) and development patterns
  • Interest in journalism, news, media or social media

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Software Engineer on the Content Team, you’ll work closely with software engineers, product managers, and designers, to ensure that the content available to our customers meets their expectations
  • You’ll work on major technical projects with large data volumes, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes

Application process

  • 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
  • A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
  • Take-home assignment (2 hours max)
  • Final interview with several team members, including a code discussion

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Muck Rack was founded in 2009 as a platform for businesses to connect with journalists. As of 2022, tens of thousands of journalists have profiles on Muck Rack that are available for businesses such as Google, Pfizer, and Duolingo to browse and employ writers from.

The nature of journalism has evolved since Muck Rack’s founding, with social media and digital outlets taking demand away from printed publications. As the landscape changes, Muck Rack has expanded their services to include a Public Relations Management platform.

It’s moves like this, as well as their shift into being a “distributed” business (hybrid or remote) that has ignited a renewed confidence in Muck Rack from investors. Though the company has been bootstrapped since its founding, Muck Rack received its first outside funding to the sum of $180 million in 2022, exemplifying how important investors deem their platform to be.

With its substantial funding, the future is bright for Muck Rack, though they will have to think carefully about how to advance the platform. Digital content can go viral in a matter of hours, and the creators are not always journalists.

Insights

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

31% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Fully distributed - Much Rack are committed to a permanent, fully remote environment, core to the way they do business.
  • Geo-neutral compensation - Much Rack believe in equitable pay regardless of where you live.
  • Time off - 4+ weeks off-the-grid vacation, sick and mental health days, and company holidays.
  • Insurance - Health, vision, and dental coverage paid at 100% for individuals
  • Retirement planning - MUck Rack contribute 3% of your annual salary to your 401k automatically.
  • Paid parental leave - 8 weeks fully paid bonding for all parents + up to 8 weeks fully paid recovery from childbirth.
  • Full WFH set up - Including monthly phone/internet reimbursement and coworking stipend.
  • Learning & development - Take advantage of unlimited access to learning platforms and regular training opportunities.
  • No meeting Fridays - Take control of your calendar, and make time for reflection and deep-focus tasks

Company values

  • Customer devotion - Muck Rack go the extra mile for their customers — journalists and PR professionals around the world.
  • Resilience - Muck Rack don’t shy away from big challenges. They keep pursuing their goals until they achieve them.
  • Ownership - Muck Racks employees all act as the CEOs of their projects and their responsibilities, taking ownership for their actions and results.
  • Transparency - Muck Rack believes that sharing actionable, timely and honest information with employees and customers is essential.

Company HQ

Brickell, Miami, FL

Founders

Currently CEO & Co-Founder of the Shorty Awards for social media. Previously CEO of RadioTail and Chairman of Halenet.

Currently Co-Founder and Producer at the Shorty Awards. Previously Founder and CTO of Innofinity.

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