Klaviyo is hiring a

Lead Software Engineer, Home

Boston, United States

At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit careers.klaviyo.com to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.

Why You Should Join the Home Team 

The home page serves as the crucial starting point for every journey within our application. We're assembling a dynamic team dedicated to enhancing this pivotal aspect of our product. Join us in driving engagement, curbing churn, and maximizing the utility of our offerings. As a part of this new team, you'll spearhead the implementation of actionable insights, pioneering AI features, and optimizing page performance. Your contributions will extend beyond the confines of our team as you support the broader growth initiatives with your technical expertise.

This is an opportunity to shape the technical roadmap and implement groundbreaking features. Collaborate with fellow engineers and tap into the wealth of knowledge within our data science community. Take center stage in shaping the future of our product and revolutionizing the customer experience.

How You Will Make a Difference:

  • Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering leaders, UX Design, and Data Science to innovate and deliver new functionalities for the home page.
  • Architect and develop scalable, resilient back end systems and APIs.
  • Design, build, and deploy critical pieces of infrastructure such as data pipelines, localization, and support for A/B experimentation.
  • Pioneer an insights-based task system to deliver timely, relevant insights to our customers precisely when they need them most.
  • Implement experiments to validate ideas, and work across products to iteratively improve features.
  • Write high-quality documentation for developers.

Who You Are: 

 

  • 8+ years of full stack development experience.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more front end technologies (React, TypeScript, Angular, Vue, etc.)
  • Experience building and maintaining complex software. You’ll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You’ll write testable, quality code. You’ll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
  • Strong foundational knowledge of AWS services, how to stand up infrastructure, and monitor for defects.
  • Hands-on experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, and other middleware development tools.
  • Thrives in a fast paced, customer focused, and strategic environment.
  • You have led and implemented large cross team technical projects.
  • Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products is a plus (but not required)

Technologies we use (not exhaustive):

  • Python, Django, Celery
  • MySQL, Redis, Pulsar
  • Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, Aurora, etc.), Kubernetes, Terraform, and other DevOps tools
  • React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

The pay range for this role is listed below. Sales roles are also eligible for variable compensation and hourly non-exempt roles are eligible for overtime in accordance with applicable law. This role is eligible for benefits, including: medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k), flexible paid time off and company-paid holidays and a culture of learning that includes a learning allowance and access to a professional coaching service for all employees.

Base Pay Range For US Locations:
$192,000$288,000 USD

Get to Know Klaviyo

We’re Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh). We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before. We see limitless potential for the technology we’re developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond. To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators—ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers. If you’re ready to do the best work of your career, where you’ll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you’ll join us.

Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, veteran or active military status, marital status, criminal record, genetics, retaliation, sexual harassment or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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