Staff Software Engineer

About Howl

Howl is a new marketplace designed for creators and brands who crave transparent collaboration.

In the last 10 years, the $20bn influencer ecommerce market has become a critical part of the retail industry. It has evolved into social commerce, a new $1.2 trillion market opportunity (link) requiring new tools, protocols, and technologies for the creator economy. Howl’s tools are designed for humans who know that scale and growth come from working together with consistency and transparency. Howl makes it easy, reliable and motivating to earn even more. That’s what makes Howl the home planet for creator-led growth.

Howl is a remote-first company with a diverse team that reflects our vision. Our private beta launched in mid-2022 and powers social commerce for creators and brands across beauty, gaming, home, fashion, and consumer electronics for both industry leaders like Best Buy, Samsung, Target and cult favorites like Cariuma, Kosas, and Youth to the People. We are a Series A company backed by investors including HighlandX and NEA. 

For more information, visit www.planethowl.com.

About the Role
Howl is looking to hire senior engineers that are bar-raisers and can operate in a generalist capacity. You are customer experience focused, a strategic contributor across design and product and you strive to build with craftsmanship at the forefront. 

As an engineer, you'll have a direct impact on the customer experience for creators and brands alike. You will work on building the core interaction our clients have with the Howl platform. These interactions include workflows like, helping creators and brands discover each other, building tools that allow creators to monetize their social content, get paid on time, and optimize for a brand’s performance marketing campaigns. You'll also surface new workflows or existing ones that help optimize the usage and efficiency of our platform. This role is an owner of business goals and key objectives.  

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will:

• Provide technical and design leadership within an engineering team
• Master the code base, toolchain, and development processes
• Work with the product and design teams for scoping, design and implementation
• Design software components and subsystems for Howl's products or infrastructure and identify when we need to scale or move away from legacy systems
• Implement high-quality software components and subsystems with your team
• Write technical documents that imposes the logic and assumptions for decision making
• May serve as tech lead (player-coach) of an implementation team.
• Drive implementation of automated testing for your components.
• Contribute to refinement and enrichment of development tools and processes
• Participate in risk analysis and risk management exercises with engineering leadership
• Thrive in a fully remote work environment

The Experience You’ll Bring:

• • At Least 10 years building consumer/customer facing apps
  • Javascript is a primarily language for you (Typescript / Next.js)
  • Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, NoSQL, )
  • Experience with Vercel and/or Edge serverless computing preferred
  • Dedication to keep up with new developments in tech
  • Strong communication and organizational skills, motivation to achieve results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Strong design intuition led by building Hi-Fi customer experiences 
  • You are an owner, you are curious and start with why vs. how

The base salary range for this role is $190,000/yr - $210,000/yr USD.

At Howl, we offer a competitive compensation package inclusive of base salary, incentive pay and stock options. Incentive awards are allocated based on individual performance. Certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. 

Howl is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.