Muck Rack is looking for a collaborative and self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team and make a big impact.
As a senior software engineer on the Platform team, you’ll work closely with engineers on various teams to help further the core elements of our application stack. You’ll contribute to technical projects that help all feature teams deliver value to our customers. Our tech stack uses Python, Django, Kafka, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Vue, and Webpack. Our technology team is focused on scale, quality, delivery, and thoughtful customer experience. We ship frequently without sacrificing work/life balance.
What You’ll do:
- Design, build, and maintain core components that are used across multiple feature teams that ultimately drive customer features and value
- Help curate frameworks, tooling, and best practices to enhance developer productivity and improve system reliability
- Help champion new technology by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies that benefit the broader engineering organization
- Advocate for and contribute to automation and observability to support scalability and maintainability
- Collaborate closely with feature teams to understand their pain points and provide solutions that simplify development and deployment processes
- Improve CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience
- Drive and support engineering best practices, including code quality, security, and performance optimizations
To be set up for success in this role, you’ll need to have:
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Strong background in Python and its ecosystem
- Experience with Django or similar web frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
- Hands-on experience in designing, building, and maintaining microservices, including monitoring, scaling, and operationalizing them
- Experience working with high-traffic, complex web applications or SaaS platforms, ideally with large data volumes
- Expertise in optimizing databases such as MySQL (or Postgres) and/or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Familiarity with gRPC/protobuf
