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 are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Reporting & Insights Team. This team builds the reporting and analytics capabilities that help customers understand the reach, impact, and performance of their media coverage and communications efforts.
In this role, you will design and develop product features that power reporting, insights, and data analysis across the platform. You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
You will also help maintain and improve the systems that support our reporting infrastructure while contributing to a collaborative engineering culture focused on quality and continuous improvement.
What You'll Do:- Design, build, and maintain features across our application that power reporting and insights capabilities
- Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented cod
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Participate in code reviews and help improve engineering standards and development practices
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues to maintain platform reliability
- Contribute to architectural discussions and technical planning for upcoming features
- Participate in on-call rotations and help respond to incidents affecting production systems
- Get familiar with our systems, processes, and codebase while contributing to planned roadmap features
- 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience building applications with the Django framework
- Hands-on experience with a modern frontend framework, preferably Vue.js
- Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly MySQL, and ORM patterns
- Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs
- Experience using Git and collaborative development workflows
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and support production systems
- Proactively incorporate AI tools into day to day work to improve productively and accelerate delivery
- Experience with analytical databases such as ClickHouse or Elasticsearch
- Experience working on data-heavy or high-traffic SaaS applications
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude or GitHub Copilot
- Experience with data streaming platforms such as Kafka
- Experience using task queues or background job systems such as Celery
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 one hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Take-home coding assignment (2-4 hours max)
- Peer interviews, including a 30 min code review discussion
- Final call(s) with executive team member(s)
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.
SalaryWe offer a competitive salary range aligned with local market value. The base salary for this role in Ireland is between 74,000 - 90,000 EUR.
Total compensation for this role consists of base salary, a quarterly bonus plan, and equity. For all other countries, we have competitive pay bands based on market standards.
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 mental health days
- 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days
- Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Learning and Development
- Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion
- Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training
- Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly
- 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development
Inclusive, Customer-First Culture
- Commitment to equity and valuing diverse perspectives
- Agile, founder-led company focused on collaboration and innovation
- Trusted by 3,000+ companies worldwide
Note: Benefits and compensation reflect offerings for U.S.-based employees. Support is provided for employees in other locations, in compliance with local laws and regulations.
While we are a fully distributed team, we do have limitations on where we can hire and maintain a list of acceptable working locations based on job function. If we are unable to hire in your current location for the role for which you applied, you will be notified via email. While we enjoy many benefits as a permanently distributed and remote company, we cannot always support relocation or extended travel and have guidelines in place to ensure compliant work away from your designated permanent residence.
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