[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack @SaaSquatch

Role Description

Muck Rack is looking for a collaborative and self-motivated senior software engineer, full-stack to join our quickly growing team and make a big impact.

• Work closely with software engineers, product managers, and designers to ensure that the content available to our customers meets their expectations.
• Work on major technical projects with large data volumes.
• Lead the building of new user-facing features.
• Help shape our engineering culture and processes.
• Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Vue, and Webpack.
• Focus on scale, quality, delivery, and thoughtful customer experience.
• Ship frequently without sacrificing work/life balance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years total professional experience as a software engineer.
• Proficiency with Django or a similar framework.
• Proficiency with Vue.js or a similar framework.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• If any of the below also describe you, this could be an exciting opportunity:
• 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.
• Experience with Celery.
• Interest in journalism, news, media or social media.
• We’re always looking for candidates who:
• 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.

Benefits

• Childcare & Parental Leave Benefits
• Health Insurance
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Vacation Incentives

Company Description

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories and demonstrate the unique value of earned media.

• Founder controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably.
• Received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn.
• Values include resilience, transparency, ownership, & customer devotion.