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Form of workSr. Software Engineer - K-Ops Marketing
Team Overview
The K-Ops marketing team is tasked with owning the front-end resources for multiple user facing sites including the marketing homepage (klaviyo.com), the careers page, Klaviyo help center, developer portal and our international sites. We focus on creating robust and performant front-ends using cutting edge technologies. We leverage server side rendering, a graphQL data layer, and React to build out fast, secure and powerful pages across the Klaviyo landscape.
How you'll make an impact
You will work with a team of five engineers along with stakeholders from our marketing team to build out a library of components that can be used across our front-end landscape. You will also be responsible for maintaining and optimizing the sites for performance and SEO alongside our performance team.
K-Ops Engineers are expected to bring to Klaviyo subject matter expertise and demonstrate adaptability by continuing to acquire new skills, level up all those around them, and research and prototype new technologies and solutions to help scale. You'll contribute to and collaborate with other engineering teams across the organization.
Who you are- You have 5-7+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- You are Passionate about building front-end software effectively and for the long-term. Have experience building websites that matter. Have proven expertise in applying modern design patterns and performant UIs.
- Like working on small, autonomous teams. Enjoy shipping code early and often in an agile fashion, pairing with stakeholders, and other engineers to craft better and more usable software.
- Eager to work with both new and existing technologies ranging from the front-end (vanilla JS & React / Gatsby) to backend (PHP and node) and deployments. You show this by having strong and opinionated experience with various technologies and know-how to pick the right tool for any job.
- Are considerate towards the needs of end users on the site and also our users in marketing who engage with the CMSs daily - building and optimizing with both in mind.
- Comfortable working with API layers like GraphQL or more traditional RESTful services
- Used to working with web analytics and SEO subject matter experts to measure performance.
- front-end technologies like Typescript, React, PHP, Styled Components, and CSS
- Modern development platforms like Gatsbyjs, Netlify
- API Layers using GraphQL
- CMS platforms including wordpress, zendesk, skilljar, and readme in a headless environment
- Analytics tools like Google Analytics and Heap.io
