Software Engineer, Full Stack, SEO, Level 5

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and it's AR glasses, Spectacles.

Snap Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer with Search Engine Optimization expertise to join Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

• 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.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Expert Technical Proficiency: Highly proficient in Javascript and or TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. Highly proficient in Java, Golang, NodeJs, and or Python.

• Modern Web Frameworks: 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.

• SEO Systems Expertise: 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 is strongly preferred.

• Scalable Content Expertise: 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.

• Resilient UI Design: 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.

• Engineering Excellence: 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.

• Performance Optimization: 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please don’t be shy and provide us some information.

"Default Together" Policy at Snap: At Snap Inc. we believe that being together in person helps us build our culture faster, reinforce our values, and serve our community, customers and partners better through dynamic collaboration. To reflect this, we practice a “default together” approach and expect our team members to work in an office 4+ days per week. 

At Snap, we believe that having a team of diverse backgrounds and voices working together will enable us to create innovative products that improve the way people live and communicate. Snap is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. EOE, including disability/vets.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law (by example, the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where applicable).

Our Benefits: Snap Inc. is its own community, so we’ve got your back! We do our best to make sure you and your loved ones have everything you need to be happy and healthy, on your own terms. Our benefits are built around your needs and include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, emotional and mental health support programs, and compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!

Compensation

In the United States, work locations are assigned a pay zone which determines the salary range for the position. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The starting pay may be negotiable within the salary range for the position. These pay zones may be modified in the future.

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC):

The base salary range for this position is $209,000-$313,000 annually.

 

Zone B:

The base salary range for this position is $199,000-$297,000 annually.

Zone C:

The base salary range for this position is $178,000-$266,000 annually.

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