Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to make PR pros more successful by providing them with technology to find journalists to pitch, monitor media, quantify their impact and work more efficiently with their teams.

We’re looking for a collaborative and self-motivated Senior Django Developer to join our small but quickly growing team and make a big impact.

As a Senior Django Developer you’ll work alongside the CTO, fellow software engineers, product managers, and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes. Our engineers are not siloed to any particular part of the application–everyone contributes everywhere. You should be excited about working with large amounts of data.

Our tech stack includes Python, Django, Celery, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Vue, and Webpack. Our technology team is focused on scale, quality, delivery, and thoughtful customer experience. We ship frequently without sacrificing work/life balance.

To be set up for success in this role, you’ll need to have:

5+ years total professional experience as a software engineer
Django or significant web experience in a similar framework

If any of the below also describe you, this could be an exciting opportunity:

Worked on a complex, high-traffic site at a startup or software-as-a-service company, ideally with large amounts of data
Experience with MySQL (or Postgres) and/or ElasticSearch
Any combination of the following: experience with Celery, Luigi or Airflow, Kafka, AWS, NLP, data model performance tuning, content extraction, application performance tuning
Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (like Vue or React) and development patterns
Interest in journalism, news, media or social media
In addition, we’re always looking for candidates who:

Have excellent communication skills, with an ability to explain ideas clearly, give and receive feedback, and work well with team members
Exhibit a willingness to learn in areas where they have less experience with our tech stack
Take pride in the quality of their code. (Your code should be readable, testable, and understandable years later. You adhere to the Zen of Python)
Work well in a fast-paced development environment with testing, continuous integration and multiple daily deploys
Have the ability to manage complexity in a large project, and incur technical debt only after considering the tradeoffs
Take a logical approach to problem solving that combines analytical thinking and intuition
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*We are actively interviewing candidates across the US, Canada, Poland and Bulgaria only*

Benefits of Working at Muck Rack

Fully distributed team, with work-from-home benefits and monthly co-working stipend
Competitive salaries, company-wide bonus plan, and equity
Generous off-the-grid PTO, including paid parental leave, paid sick/mental health days, learning days, summer Fridays, and more
Health, dental and vision insurance (100% paid by employer for individuals; 70% paid by employer for families)
401(k) plan with employer contributions
Access to OneMedical, 24/7 Virtual Care, an Employee Assistance Program, and a Flexible Spending Account
Discounted gym & bike memberships and free Headspace account
Unlimited subscription to Learning & Development platforms
Virtual & in-person team bonding opportunities including free lunches, activities, & events
Inclusive culture that listens to and welcomes diverse perspectives.

NOTE: Today, we can not hire employees in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Wisconsin, or Wyoming.