Senior Product Engineer - Later, Vancouver

About this opportunity

Later is recognised as the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, providing brands with the confidence to execute unforgettable campaigns. Built on a native, AI-powered platform and leveraging over a decade of proprietary data, Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch. This includes billions of social interactions, impressions, and over $2.4 billion in verified influencer-driven purchases, ensuring campaigns deliver meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue.

As a Senior Engineer focusing on Product at Later, you will be instrumental in driving large-scale projects and delivering impactful features. This role demands solving complex technical problems, collaborating effectively across various teams, and mentoring junior engineers. You will continuously improve our codebases and foster a strong culture of technical excellence. With deep expertise in modern software development and Agile practices, you will significantly shape how Later builds, scales, and innovates, directly influencing both product velocity and the overall engineering culture.

Key duties

• Scope, plan, and lead delivery of large-scale features and roadmap initiatives.
• Clarify and refine requirements across stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.
• Navigate ambiguous requirements and competing interests to deliver features that delight users.
• Contribute to long-term architectural planning and system design.
• Lead technical problem-solving for complex, cross-team challenges and production issues.
• Continuously improve the codebase by upholding high standards for code reviews, architecture, testing, and deployment.
• Ensure scalable and maintainable solutions across both frontend and backend systems.
• Act as the go-to expert for debugging, troubleshooting, and system reliability.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams to align on priorities and delivery.
• Clearly communicate technical and non-technical concepts across the organisation.
• Participate actively in meetings, providing input that drives clarity and shared understanding.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure features meet user and business needs.
• Mentor and develop junior engineers through coaching, pairing, and feedback.
• Champion engineering best practices, raising the bar for technical excellence across the team.
• Model emotional intelligence and resilience, building trust and inspiring growth in others.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, frameworks, and architectures.
• Promote Agile best practices and contribute to evolving team workflows (Scrum/Kanban).
• Share insights on industry trends and competitor approaches to inform product and engineering strategy.

Skills and experience

• 7–10 years of progressive software engineering experience (leadership required).
• In-depth knowledge of modern software development practices and architectures.
• Strong track record of scoping, delivering, and evolving large-scale features.
• Experience with both frontend and backend technologies (polyglot mindset preferred).
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban) and project delivery.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for all audiences.
• Strategic problem-solving ability with adaptability in fast-changing environments.
• A passion for mentoring and a commitment to fostering a culture of excellence.

Successful candidates are driven by impact, delivering results that matter by prioritising high-value work and adapting quickly. You are strategic and customer-centric, anticipating risks and opportunities while building trust through proactive insights. A curious and growth-oriented mindset means you seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast, challenging the status quo. You are collaborative and resilient, thriving in change by staying resourceful and solution-focused. Accountability and honesty are key, owning your work and using transparent feedback to drive growth. Finally, emotional intelligence allows you to build trust through empathy, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.

What's on offer

Later adopts a market-based and data-driven approach to compensation, leveraging trusted third-party sources to determine market value based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. Compensation is evaluated bi-annually, considering performance and market factors. Salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of the job posting, with some roles structured as On Target Earnings (OTE) and others as Salary only. All permanent team members are also eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.

• Salary range for candidates located in Canada: $110,000-160,000 CAD

This position is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, operating under a hybrid work model. Later maintains offices in Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC; and Vancouver, WA, with select positions open to fully remote candidates. This specific posting indicates the location where the successful candidate will be based.

Later is deeply committed to fostering a culture rooted in an inclusion-first mindset at every level, embracing the importance of building teams for culture add rather than just culture fit. They actively build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create an equitable workplace, driving systemic change. As an equal opportunity employer, Later is dedicated to creating a diverse environment, ensuring all applications receive consideration without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age. Accommodations and support during the recruitment process are available upon request.