Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations and communications professionals. Our mission is to enable organizations to build trust, tell their stories, and demonstrate the unique value of earned media. Muck Rack’s AI-powered, comprehensive, and integrated platform streamlines the PR workflow to help businesses generate positive media coverage, monitor mentions to manage brand reputation, and analyze PR’s impact on business outcomes. By combining media database, monitoring, and reporting into one dynamic platform, we empower teams to collaborate seamlessly, pitch effectively, and analyze results faster and more efficiently.

Founder-controlled, fully distributed, and growing sustainably, Muck Rack has received several awards for its unparalleled culture and product from organizations like Inc., Quartz, G2, and BuiltIn. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, and customer devotion, and infuse these values into everything we do.

We’re looking for a collaborative, self-motivated Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack to join our growing Search team.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack, you’ll help build and evolve the customer-facing search experiences that help users discover relevant, high-quality content, along with the backend systems that power them. You’ll work across the stack, with a slight emphasis on frontend development, and collaborate closely with engineers, Product, and Design to deliver intuitive search experiences backed by reliable, scalable search and data systems.

What You'll Do

Own and deliver customer-facing search features and workflows across frontend and backend systems, from technical planning through production

Build AI-powered product experiences end to end, from the services behind them to the interfaces that make their output useful and trustworthy

Build intuitive, responsive user experiences using Vue while contributing to the Python and Django services that power them

Design and improve search, indexing, and retrieval systems that support high-quality content discovery across large volumes of data

Build and maintain features and data workflows that leverage technologies such as Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, and MySQL

Make thoughtful technical decisions and trade-offs that balance customer experience, delivery speed, performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability

Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and engineering teammates to shape solutions, clarify requirements, and deliver high-quality customer experiences

Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive improvements to the performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability of the systems you work on

Participate in an on-call and incident response rotation, helping diagnose and resolve production issues and improve system reliability over time

To Be Set Up for Success in This Role, You'll Need to Have

5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software

Strong experience working across frontend and backend systems and independently delivering features throughout the application stack

Proficiency with Python or a similar programming language and experience with Django or a comparable web framework

Experience building polished, maintainable user-facing applications with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript framework

Experience with Elasticsearch or a comparable search technology, or significant experience working with data-intensive systems

Experience making technical trade-offs within complex production systems while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term quality

Experience diagnosing production issues and contributing to the reliability and operational health of the systems you build

Experience with TypeScript in a large codebase

Experience with design systems or shared component libraries

Flexibility to adjust working hours for overlap with teammates in US time zones

If Any of the Below Also Describe You, This Could Be an Exciting Opportunity

Experience with Kafka or other streaming or event-driven technologies

Experience with MySQL, Postgres, or other relational databases

Experience with Celery or other asynchronous task-processing systems

Experience building search, discovery, indexing, or information-retrieval features

Experience improving frontend architecture, performance, or complex customer-facing workflows

Experience working with high-traffic SaaS applications or systems that process large volumes of data

Experience building customer-facing features backed by LLMs or other AI models

Experience judging whether an AI-backed feature is actually working, through evaluation, testing, or user feedback

Interest in journalism, news, media, or social media

In Addition, We're Always Looking for Candidates Who

Communicate complex technical ideas clearly and collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners

Take ownership of problems and drive work forward independently while knowing when to involve others

Take pride in building readable, testable, maintainable software while making pragmatic technical trade-offs

Approach ambiguous or complex problems thoughtfully and use sound judgment to identify effective solutions

Contribute to a strong engineering culture through thoughtful code reviews, knowledge sharing, feedback, and continuous improvement

Proactively incorporates AI tools into day-to-day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery

Interview Overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team

A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager

Peer interviews with several team members

30-minute Bar Raiser

Travel & Team Engagement Expectations

This role requires up to 10% travel for team collaboration, customer engagements, and company events. As part of our commitment to building strong connections across our fully distributed team, attendance at our annual company offsite (typically held in Mexico) is expected.

Salary

The anticipated salary range for this role in Ireland is €95,000–€110,000 annually, depending on experience.

The anticipated salary for this role in Bulgaria is €6,000+ gross per month, depending on experience.

Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

Why Muck Rack?

Remote Work, Forever

Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup

Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership

Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions)

Transparent & Fair Compensation

Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S.

Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment

Standardized bonus or commission structure

401(k) with employer contributions

Equity opportunities

Health & Wellness

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents

100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans

24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program

Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits

Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription

Time Off & Family Benefits

4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and men