Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join their Reporting & Insights Team, where the role involves designing and developing product features for reporting and data analysis while collaborating with various teams to deliver scalable solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain features across our application that power reporting and insights capabilities
- Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Participate in code reviews and help improve engineering standards and development practices
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues to maintain platform reliability
- Contribute to architectural discussions and technical planning for upcoming features
- Participate in on-call rotations and help respond to incidents affecting production systems
- Get familiar with our systems, processes, and codebase while contributing to planned roadmap features
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience building applications with the Django framework
- Hands-on experience with a modern frontend framework, preferably Vue.js
- Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly MySQL, and ORM patterns
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Experience using Git and collaborative development workflows
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and support production systems
- Proactively incorporate AI tools into day to day work to improve productively and accelerate delivery
- Experience with analytical databases such as ClickHouse or Elasticsearch
- Experience working on data-heavy or high-traffic SaaS applications
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude or GitHub Copilot
- Experience with data streaming platforms such as Kafka
- Experience using task queues or background job systems such as Celery