<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a huge opportunity ahead of us and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate and disrupt an industry. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry — a game changer when it comes to career growth.</span></p></div><p><strong>Position Title</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span>Staff Engineer, Brand</p> <p><strong>Location: </strong>Remote from the U.S. <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-Remote #LI-CW1 </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>LTK is seeking a Staff Engineer to strengthen the technical leadership of the Brand team. Staff Engineers on the team lead the architecture, technical direction, and execution of strategic, complex, and business-critical initiatives. You will partner with product, design, data, and platform teams to solve high-impact problems and ensure the platform can reliably support evolving business needs.</p> <p>As a senior technical leader, you will bring clarity to ambiguous initiatives; establish durable patterns across teams; and maintain the overall health of the Brand platform. This role expands technical-leadership coverage across Brand while helping LTK deliver reliable, scalable experiences that support our Brands and Creators.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>How you will make an impact</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide technical leadership across the Brand platform, leading strategic, complex, and business-critical initiatives wherever they arise.</li> <li>Define and evolve architecture for complex, cross-team product and platform initiatives.</li> <li>Lead the technical strategy, decomposition, and execution of critical projects from discovery through delivery.</li> <li>Partner with product, design, data, and platform teams to align technical decisions with customer, platform-health, and business outcomes.</li> <li>Establish scalable patterns, APIs, and system boundaries that enable teams to move quickly while improving reliability and maintainability.</li> <li>Identify and reduce technical risks, dependencies, and sources of operational complexity before they become delivery constraints.</li> <li>Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, technical coaching, and mentorship of engineers and emerging technical leaders.</li> <li>Maintain overall platform health by strengthening observability, quality practices, operational readiness, and cross-team execution.</li> <li>Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical direction, practical milestones, and durable solutions.</li> <li>Lead the adoption of AI-native engineering practices across the Brand platform, using coding agents and AI-assisted tools to accelerate investigation, technical design, implementation, testing, code review, documentation, and operational response.</li> <li>Create the conditions for high-quality agent-assisted delivery by improving repository context, technical specifications, development environments, CI pipelines, test strategies, and feedback loops.</li> <li>Direct multiple streams of agent-assisted work where appropriate, decomposing complex initiatives into well-scoped tasks, reviewing outputs critically, and remaining accountable for everything that reaches production.</li> <li>Establish practical evaluation and validation mechanisms for AI-assisted workflows, including automated checks, targeted human review, security controls, observability, and production feedback.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to reduce engineering toil, improve developer experience, increase test coverage, and shorten the path from an ambiguous problem to a reliable customer outcome.</li> <li>Share what works through architecture guidance, reusable patterns, documentation, mentoring, and hands-on coaching so AI-native practices scale beyond individual power users.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you will bring to LTK</strong></p> <ul> <li>8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading the architecture and delivery of complex, distributed systems.</li> <li>Demonstrated success operating as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior technical leader across multiple teams or domains.</li> <li>Strong systems-design skills, including the ability to make pragmatic architectural tradeoffs across performance, reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.</li> <li>Experience leading high-impact initiatives that require coordination across engineering, product, design, data, and platform partners.</li> <li>A track record of turning ambiguous product and business problems into clear technical strategies and executable plans.</li> <li>Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct authority.</li> <li>A coaching mindset and demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and grow technical leadership across teams.</li> <li>Commitment to engineering excellence, including quality, operational ownership, observability, and continuous improvement.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted developm