Senior Backend Engineer, Content Moderation

The Role:

Linktree is a leading platform that empowers users to centralize their online presence, streamlining how they connect with their audience across various channels. As our company grows, so does the complexity and importance of ensuring a safe and engaging environment for our diverse user base.

We are seeking a skilled Backend Software Engineer to join our dynamic Content Moderation Team. In this role, you’ll be working with a small team of Software and Machine Learning Engineers in developing and maintaining backend systems that detect and action violative content uploaded to our platform.

What You’ll Own:

• Our Content Moderation platform capabilities, scanning all content shared on Linktree for violations of our Community Standards and implementation of our Trust & Safety team’s policies

• The build, deployment, infrastructure, testing and monitoring of our deployed and running service

• Processes for scanning content for violations and either automatically moderating it or queueing it for review if required

• Tooling used by our Trust & Safety team to review trends in content being uploaded and review content flagged as potentially violative

• Standardised interfaces between the Content Moderation team and the rest of the Linktree organisation to communicate content being uploaded, classified, detected as violative and moderated to enable consistent integrations with all teams

Who We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information and Technology or equivalent and 5+ years of relevant industry experience.

• Prior experience with backend software development (We use Typescript primarily but experience with any equivalent language is fine)

• Prior experience building services with open source web application frameworks (e.g. Spring, ASP.NET, ExpressJS, Symfony, NestJS) and object oriented programming

• Prior experience managing the cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, build, testing and monitoring of containerised backend microservices

• Prior experience developing and designing event-driven and synchronous systems

• Willingness to contribute to the front-end tooling used by the Trust & Safety team (we use a third party platform enabling us to develop this tooling using a building-block framework)

• Strong verbal and written communication skills and a passion for helping other teams

Preferred Experience, Not Required (Optional)

• Experience working for SAAS companies

• Experience building self-service tooling and platforms

• Experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure with their CDK

P.S. If you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, hit that apply button!

Where and How We Work

We are a global and diverse group offering a truly flexible and family friendly work environment. Kids, pets, and the occasional delivery person are all actively encouraged to appear on our Zoom screens. All of us at Linktree work either fully remote or a flex hybrid approach.

We offer autonomy and flexibility in how you structure your days and weeks. There will be the need for some collaboration outside of your usual 9-5 being a global company, but we aim to work asynchronously where possible.

How we’ll help you thrive

Our approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together. Some ways we support you:

• An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office set up - the choice is yours!

• 100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.

• Employer contribution towards your retirement.

• Generous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time and other categories.

• Employee Stock Option Program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success as we go further together.

To learn more about our benefits, including our parental leave program, volunteering leave, DE&I initiatives, and more, click here!

Our Story

We're on a mission to empower anyone to curate, grow and monetize their digital universe. We created the "link in bio" category and are trusted by some of the world's biggest brands and celebrities including TikTok, The UN Environmental Program, The White House, F1, Manchester United, Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez. With over 50M+ users and 40,000 new accounts created everyday, Linktree is the fastest growing leader in our category. Linktree has partnered with some of today’s biggest names like Amazon, TikTok, Snap, YouTube, GoFundMe, Spotify, Google, Stripe, Reddit and more to help unify users’ digital spaces—  and we’re just getting started. Join us in empowering everyone from businesses to creatives in building their online presence.

At Linktree, we celebrate and support everyone’s perspective and background, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging, because we believe in going further together. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience. If you require accommodations to fully participate in our opportunities, please don't hesitate to reach us at talent@linktr.ee – your needs are important to us.