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Software Engineer II, Technical Search Visibility
Remote Marketing role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalOpen level
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Canada
Role overview
Software Engineer II, Technical Search Visibility
Requirements and responsibilities
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About the Job
- Build and ship full SEO and AEO features end-to-end with minimal oversight, from development through experimentation and rollout.
- Design, build, and ship high-quality full-stack features that enhance search engine visibility, AI answer engine performance, and organic traffic with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
- Apply technical best practices to deliver performant, observable, and cost-aware code that improves traditional search rankings, LLM visibility, and user experience.
- Contribute to data pipelines for SEO and AEO data ingestion, transformation, and delivery, applying simple, reusable abstractions to keep the system healthy as it grows.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and marketing partners to translate user needs into technical requirements, surface trade-offs, and deliver on shared goals.
Minimum Qualifications
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience with proficiency in React, Ruby, Python, PostgreSQL, and SQL.
- Demonstrated ability to build and launch complete features end-to-end with minimal oversight, including development, experimentation, and production rollout.
- Experience with distributed systems and data engineering — designing pipelines, optimizing schemas, and ensuring data quality — with exposure to Airflow or DBT.
- Ability to write performant code and improve system observability through logging and metrics, identifying and resolving bottlenecks as they arise.
- Strong product mindset with the ability to translate user needs into technical requirements and understand how your work impacts business metrics.
- Effective communicator who can collaborate across marketing, product, and engineering partners to align on requirements and deliver solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on SEO/AEO initiatives or familiarity with SEO best practices, answer engine optimization for LLMs, structured data (Schema.org), search engine crawling/indexing, and Core Web Vitals.
- Familiarity with how AI-powered search engines and LLMs consume and surface content, with curiosity about optimizing for AI answer generation.
- Experience with big data technologies (Apache Spark, Airflow, Hadoop), NoSQL databases, and data warehousing platforms (Snowflake, Redshift).
- Track record of proactively raising and resolving technical debt to keep code and systems healthy.
- Experience launching experiments and analyzing results, including A/B testing frameworks for measuring SEO/AEO impact.
- Previous experience partnering with marketing teams on growth initiatives in fast-paced startup environments.
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