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 Engineering teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snap chatters 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!

• Full Stack Architecture: Design and build full stack features in Next.js, React, and Type Script 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.

• Expert Technical Proficiency: Highly proficient in JavaScript and/or Type Script, HTML, and CSS. Proficient in Java, Go, Node.js, and/or Python.
• Modern Web Frameworks: Experience developing front end software using JavaScript UI frameworks (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 SSR, SSG, and prerendering 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 with content systems, search or discovery systems, or SEO platforms at scale is 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 frontend design and web app development, including responsive layouts and component-based architectures. Ability to write UI components that are resilient, reusable, and accessible.
• Engineering Excellence: Strong knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming, and domain-driven design principles. Solid knowledge of unit testing and familiarity with integration and end-to-end testing for web apps.
• Performance Optimization: Experience optimizing JavaScript performance, browser rendering, and Core Web Vitals. Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues in frontend and backend systems.

• Bachelor's Degree in a…