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Location: Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada Posted: May 16, 2020

Job Description

Founded as the first-to-market Instagram scheduler in 2014, Later.com has grown from a simple Instagram tool to the #1 visual marketing platform for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Now with over 3 million users globally, Later is a member of the Instagram Partner Program and a Pinterest Marketing Partner.

We believe that social media has become a visual experience, and we’ve designed our platform to help you visually plan and schedule your photo and video content.

Later helps streamline your social media strategy so you can set yourself up for more sales and success. Our features focus on visual scheduling, media management, marketing and analytics. Here at Later, our goal is to simplify Instagram marketing and make it accessible for all businesses.

Our Values

Our core cultural values are manifested in our practices and processes every day. We highly value transparency and fairness in everything we do. We look for people who like to move quickly, are ambitious yet humble and have a great sense of humour. If you have a mischievous spark of fun, that’s even better.

You have:

  • A natural tendency to take initiative, achieve results and generally #GSD.
  • A desire to constantly stay organized and create efficiency using technology, bringing order to chaos and uncertainty.
  • Teamwork is your middle name. You want to brainstorm with the best of them and are continually looking for ways to do it better.
  • A humbleness to recognize that sometimes you’ll need to apologize and admit mistakes (we’re all human after all!)
  • Understand and work well in startup culture - be able and willing to take on all sorts of tasks and responsibilities.

We list our values and beliefs first because they are non-negotiable; if you're still reading then check out some of the responsibilities you will own.

What We’re Looking for

At Later, we take development seriously! Our tech stack consists of our core Ruby on Rails app and several NodeJS services. All members of our founding team come from a technical background, ensuring development practices and technology investments are thoughtful and strategic.

We are looking to add collaborative software developers to our team who want to make a real difference for our user base of hundreds of thousands of small businesses. We believe in documentation, test-driven development, continuous integration, one-click deployments, and meaningful code reviews. All code written at Later is impactful and is pushed out multiple times a day .

Responsibilities

  • Work in our iterative, agile software development process
  • Develop software for our large-scale web application (handling over a quarter million uploads a day) - having the opportunity to work on our core API and analytics services
  • Design and write well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented, and thoroughly-tested code
  • Conduct code reviews with other members of the dev team to main maintain high coding standards
  • Work with our Product and Design teams to help scope and plan product features
  • Collaborate and work with our Customer Success team to better understand our users needs and how our product could better meet their needs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years experience in software development in team environment
  • Experience with architectural tradeoffs; have had to defend your opinions on architecture
  • 3+ years experience in NodeJS
  • Bonus: Experience or knowledge of Amazon Web Services
  • Entrepreneurial by nature, you excel in a fast-paced, agile environment where critical thinking and strong problem solving skills are a given
  • The tech startup industry is where you want to be. You thrive on the cutting edge and get excited to learn more, push boundaries and innovate every day.

Why Choose Later

Located near downtown Vancouver, in Chinatown, Later is pleased to offer all our employees a competitive salary, a chance to participate in the success of the company through equity, medical and dental benefits and a wellness program.

If you think you might be a great fit with our team, we’d love to hear from you.

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