Senior Engineer (Platform)

Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments. 4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.

By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. com .

About The Role

: The Senior Engineer is responsible for driving large-scale projects, delivering impactful features, and maintaining high engineering standards. You’ll solve complex problems, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers while continuously improving our codebases and fostering a culture of technical excellence. With deep expertise in modern software development and Agile practices, you’ll shape how we build, scale, and innovate—directly influencing product velocity and engineering culture.

What You’Ll Do

: Strategy Design scalable, maintainable, and secure service architectures. Identify opportunities for platform-wide improvements, new service development, and reduction of technical debt. Contribute to long-term platform vision and help shape standards for engineering excellence.

Contribute to long-term architectural planning and system design. Technical / Execution Build backend services using C# in a Functional Programming paradigm or TypeScript for web and background worker applications. Work with both SQL and NoSQL databases; PostgreSQL expertise preferred.

Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and Infrastructure as Code. Apply security best practices across applications and infrastructure (secure coding, vulnerability assessments, secrets management). Continuously improve the codebase by upholding high standards for code reviews, architecture, testing, and deployment.

Act as the go-to expert for debugging, troubleshooting, and system reliability. Team / Collaboration Grow as a technical mentor to multiply team impact by elevating skills and practices of peers and junior engineers.

Requirements

, scope projects, and deliver platform solutions. Work closely with stakeholders to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex backend issues across the stack. Contribute to engineering culture by modeling ownership, accountability, and a growth mindset.

Leadership Mentor and develop junior engineers through coaching, pairing, and feedback. Champion engineering best practices, raising the bar for technical excellence across the team. Model emotional intelligence and resilience, building trust and inspiring growth in others.

Research / Best practices Stay current on emerging technologies in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and secure software practices. Stay current on emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectures. Promote Agile best practices and contribute to evolving team workflows (Scrum).

Share insights on industry trends and competitor approaches to inform product and engineering strategy. What success looks like: You consistently deliver complex, high-impact projects on time meeting both technical and business objectives. You’re seen as a trusted technical leader and SME of your domain who raises the bar for engineering excellence across the team.