Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack)

• As a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack, you’ll help build and evolve the customer-facing search experiences that help users discover relevant, high-quality content, along with the backend systems that power them. You’ll work across the stack, with a slight emphasis on frontend development, and collaborate closely with engineers, Product, and Design to deliver intuitive search experiences backed by reliable, scalable search and data systems

• Own and deliver customer-facing search features and workflows across frontend and backend systems, from technical planning through production

• Build AI-powered product experiences end to end, from the services behind them to the interfaces that make their output useful and trustworthy

• Build intuitive, responsive user experiences using Vue while contributing to the Python and Django services that power them

• Design and improve search, indexing, and retrieval systems that support high-quality content discovery across large volumes of data

• Build and maintain features and data workflows that leverage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, and MySQL

• Make thoughtful technical decisions and trade-offs that balance customer experience, delivery speed, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and engineering teammates to shape solutions, clarify requirements, and deliver high-quality customer experiences

• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive improvements to the performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability of the systems you work on

• Participate in an on-call and incident response rotation, helping diagnose and resolve production issues and improve system reliability over time

Benefits

• Fully distributed - Much Rack are committed to a permanent, fully remote environment, core to the way they do business.

• Geo-neutral compensation - Much Rack believe in equitable pay regardless of where you live.

• Time off - 4+ weeks off-the-grid vacation, sick and mental health days, and company holidays.

• Insurance - Health, vision, and dental coverage paid at 100% for individuals

• Retirement planning - MUck Rack contribute 3% of your annual salary to your 401k automatically.

• Paid parental leave - 8 weeks fully paid bonding for all parents + up to 8 weeks fully paid recovery from childbirth.

• Full WFH set up - Including monthly phone/internet reimbursement and coworking stipend.

• Learning & development - Take advantage of unlimited access to learning platforms and regular training opportunities.

• No meeting Fridays - Take control of your calendar, and make time for reflection and deep-focus tasks- Experience with Elasticsearch or a comparable search technology, or significant experience working with data-intensive systems

• Experience building polished, maintainable user-facing applications with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript framework

• Experience with design systems or shared component libraries

• Strong experience working across frontend and backend systems and independently delivering features throughout the application stack

• Experience making technical trade-offs within complex production systems while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term quality

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software

• Proficiency with Python or a similar programming language and experience with Django or a comparable web framework

• Flexibility to adjust working hours for overlap with teammates in US time zones

• Experience diagnosing production issues and contributing to the reliability and operational health of the systems you build

• Experience with TypeScript in a large codebase

• Proactively incorporates AI tools into day-to-day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery

• Take pride in building readable, testable, maintainable software while making pragmatic technical trade-offs

• Communicate complex technical ideas clearly and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners

• Take ownership of problems and drive work forward independently while knowing when to involve others

• Approach ambiguous or complex problems thoughtfully and use sound judgment to identify effective solutions

• Contribute to a strong engineering culture through thoughtful code reviews, knowledge sharing, feedback, and continuous improvement

• Experience with Kafka or other streaming or event-driven technologies

• Experience with MySQL, Postgres, or other relational databases

• Experience with Celery or other asynchronous task-processing systems

• Experience building search, discovery, indexing, or information-retrieval features

• Experience improving frontend architecture, performance, or complex customer-facing workflows

• Experience working with high-traffic SaaS applications or systems that process large volumes of data

• Experience judging whether an AI-backed feature is actually working, through evaluation, testing, or user feedback

• Experience building customer-facing features backed by LLMs or other AI models

• Interest in journalism, news, media, or social media- Below you’ll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team

• A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager

• Peer interviews with several team members

• 30-minute Bar Raiser