“We re-invent how business connect people to the products they’ll love.”
Longtail UX
Founded in 2013, Longtail UX, is the world’s first customer acquisition platform that optimizes website architecture, landing pages, and keywords to deliver high-quality, long-tail traffic from search engines.
10 years on, Longtail UX’s patented technology has taken the e-commerce world by storm and has been adopted by some of the biggest players in the market including MYER, catch.com, and Dan Murphy’s to name a few.
Having won the APAC Search Awards 2022 and with many new clients now joining on board, there’s never been a more exciting time to make your impact on real-world business challenges with Longtail UX.
Key Points
- Role
- Technical Backend Lead
- Location
- Sydney - Hybrid remote working
- Salary
- Up to $180,000 + super + bonus
- Tech Stack
- PHP, Laravel, APIs,React/Javascript
- Company size
- 26 people
- Funding Round
- $4 million
What Longtail UX is all about
Imagine this scenario: you've just launched your e-commerce business, stocking your online shelves with products you're passionate about. But in the vast landscape of the Internet, your products are like stars lost in the cosmos. What if there was a way to make your products stand out, to guide potential customers right to your door?
This is where Longtail UX shines! This innovative tech company from Down Under is revolutionizing the way e-commerce platforms optimize their online presence. Their unique SEO and SEM tool is like a precision-guided satellite, zooming in on your products and services to bring them front and center for potential customers. It's not just about generating traffic; it's about delivering quality, targeted, long-tail traffic that converts into sales.
Conceived in 2013 by an experienced duo with deep roots in the digital marketing world, Longtail UX's technology has witnessed an impressive upswing over the years. By making every landing page a potential gold mine of conversions, they've caught the eye of businesses big and small. With their platform currently serving millions of unique users, the sky is simply not the limit for this team.
Jumping on board with Longtail UX now provides an unparalleled opportunity to be part of a company that's not just growing, but also transforming the way online businesses succeed. You'll be making a real difference, helping businesses shine brightly in the crowded cosmos of the internet. It's a chance to be part of an inspiring journey, navigating the challenges of e-commerce, and creating solutions that matter.
Technical Backend Lead
Keeping on its growth trajectory, Longtail UX is looking to add a Technical Backend Lead to its cross-collaborative team.
Embrace the diverse nature of back-end work from figuring out how to deploy solutions fast to building products & tools for some of the world’s biggest retailers. While there is an existing stack, there's flexibility, allowing you to use the tools that best fit the task. While supporting the Head of Engineering to lead the existing developers, solidify strategies, influence Agile ways of working, and implement best practices that are not only scalable but also repeatable.
A pivotal part of your journey with Longtail UX will be working towards automation, with the goal of reducing manual processes. Catering to clients using SAP, Salesforce, and Magento, your endeavors will contribute to their long-term ambition to evolve into a no-code solution.
There is so much potential to explore how to use data, machine learning and, AI.
By joining the mission at Longtail UX to deliver unmatched user experiences, you'll be a key player in transforming the e-commerce landscape.
What’s special about this role?
Explore new technologies
Explore how AI & Machine Learning can be implemented in to the product
Fast and Steadily Scaling Journey
Join an organisation that’s growing steadily but with ambitious plans to improve its product and build out its brand.
Impact millions of users a day
Work on a product that influences and impacts millions of people around the globe in real time in a trillion-dollar industry
The Details
The Team
Some of the smartest and friendliest people in the industry make up the Longtail UX team, and all of them are on a mission to make a best-in-market product.
The Development team is led by the Head of Engineering (Marcelo) and comprises of 2 Front End Developers, 3 Back End Developers, a Site Reliability Engineer, and a Business Intelligence Analyst. You’ll also get to collaborate with the Product Manager, Project Manager, and Product Designer.
Culture & Values
This company has a truly special culture. Longtail UX prides itself in its can-do, engineering-centric culture built by the founders and shaped and upheld by the rest of the team.
They also put a lot of importance on values like mental health, work-life balance, and continuous learning and upskilling for the team. These values are seen through company lunches, and flexible working hours in a casual office space.
Financials & Benefits
On top of paying great market salaries and having a wicked working environment, Longtail UX has a few extra benefits which help make them an awesome place to work:
10% bonus
Company equity plans
Interview Process
Screening call with Marcelo
1hr Technical discussion with Marclo & a technical member of the team
30 minutes with the product team