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Snap Inc. · 2 days ago

Software Engineer, Full Stack, SEO, Level 5

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$209K/yr - $313K/yr

6+ years exp

Snap Inc is a technology company that empowers people to express themselves and connect with others through innovative products. They are seeking a Full Stack Engineer with SEO expertise to design and build features that enhance content discoverability and user experience across their platforms.

Computer Software

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Full Stack Architecture: Design and build full stack features in Next.js React TypeScript that power logged out and SEO activation experiences. Design and implement backend services and APIs for content retrieval and delivery, including caching, ranking, and routing strategies

SEO & Content Discovery: Define and evolve technical SEO foundations such as site architecture, crawlability, internal linking strategy, sitemaps, canonicalization, and structured data. Work with structured and unstructured content, content stores, and query layers to make content discoverable for both users and search engines

Build ML Powered Content Pages: Design and implement scalable content ranking systems, engineering robust pipelines for automated feature generation and real time model serving to personalize user experiences

Tooling & Operations: Build tooling and automation for large scale SEO operations, such as content feeds, template systems, diagnostics dashboards, and alerting

Performance & Reliability: Partner with infra and platform teams to ensure performance, reliability, and scalability for high traffic SEO pages

Cross Functional Impact: Collaborate with data and growth partners to design experiments, measure impact, and build feedback loops into the system

Mentorship: Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and mentoring of other engineers as we grow our SEO expertise across the team

Qualification

Full Stack DevelopmentTechnical SEOJavaScriptReactTypeScriptPythonJavaGolangMachine LearningPerformance OptimizationCollaborationMentorshipProblem SolvingCommunication

Required

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

6+ years of post Bachelor's software development experience; or Master's degree in a technical field + 5+ year of post grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field+ 2+ years of post grad software development experience

Experience with full stack web development

Highly proficient in Javascript and or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS

Highly proficient in Java, Golang, NodeJs, and or Python

Experience developing front end software using Javascript UI frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue, with a strong preference for React and Next js or similar server rendered frameworks

Practical experience with SEO centric web development, including server side rendering, static site generation, and pre rendering strategies

Deep understanding of how search engines crawl, render, and index content, including crawl budget, duplicate content handling, canonicalization, and structured data concepts

Experience working with content systems, search or discovery systems, or SEO platforms at scale

Deep expertise in large scale content, search, or content discovery systems, with a proven ability to integrate machine learning pipelines for automated content classification, ranking, and enrichment

Experience in front end design and web application development, including responsive layouts and component based architectures

Experience writing code for user interface components that are resilient, reusable, and accessible

Strong knowledge of object oriented and functional programming principles and domain driven design principles

Solid knowledge of unit testing and familiarity with integration and end to end testing for web applications

Experience optimizing Javascript performance, browser layout rendering, and Core Web Vitals style metrics

Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues in both frontend and backend systems

Preferred

MS degree in a technical field

Experience with WebGL, Canvas, WebAssembly, Service workers, or other advanced frontend technology

Experience with GraphQL

Experience with large scale microservices and distributed systems

Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services

Passion for building a rich and innovative user experience

Benefits

Paid parental leave

Comprehensive medical coverage

Emotional and mental health support programs

Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

Company

Snap Inc.

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Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

Founded in 2011

Santa Monica, California, US

5001-10000 employees

https://careers.snap.com/

H1B Sponsorship

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