Vendelux helps companies discover the best events. Event marketers are the unsung heroes of successful companies. From generating leads to building world-class brands, event marketers make magic happen throughout the year. Vendelux is here to help maximize the impact of all the events that a company sponsors and attends.
We are a Series A SaaS company and provide the system of record for event marketing. Our software platform provides proprietary insights that helps high-growth companies find the highest ROI events, conferences and trade shows to attend and sponsor. We have built an AI-powered platform that customers describe as an event marketer’s dream.
Vendelux was founded in 2021, and our recent $14 million Series A was led by FirstMark, whose portfolio includes companies like Shopify, Pinterest, Discord, Airbnb, Draft Kings, Carta and Justworks (amongst others). Our leadership team includes alumni from Bain, ZoomInfo, Shutterstock, Compass, ModernLoop, Forter, Zulilly, NewtonX.
Data-driven marketers have plenty of tools to optimize their digital ad spend and verify that their ads showed where they were supposed to. We build the same kinds of tools, but for data-driven event marketers, who’ve previously been limited to scanning conference badges at their booth.
We're growing, and looking for Staff Software Engineers to ship critical features and make key drive key infrastructure changes. As a Staff Engineer at Vendelux, you will help shape the technical strategy for our products and systems.
This is a full-time position based out of NYC. We have a NYC HQ, and our preference is to have engineers come in a hybrid set up with an expectation of 4 days in office. It reports directly to our Head of Engineering.
Scope of Responsibilities
Be the technical owner for features end-to-end, including the systems that power our data platforms and best-in-class web application
Ship high quality, secure, and well-tested software that scales as highly distributed systems, using incremental deliveries based on data driven prioritization and decisions
Solve interesting and challenging technical problems, coordinating technical roadmap deliveries across our product team and front end engineers
Collaborate with our operations and revenue teams, as well as our users to respond, react, and plan feature delivery based on user feedback and analytics
Identify opportunities to work across our stack, and areas of the business, to help meet the needs of a quickly scaling business and product
Work closely with our leadership team to define our product roadmap and technical strategy, and continuously improve our development process and engineering practices
Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews, on performant, scalable engineering principles, with a focus on iterative delivery
Tech Stack
Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js
Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP
Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake
Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code
Qualifications
10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript
Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features
Track record of driving high-leverage improvements to infrastructure and process
Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate
Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work
Nice-to-have: Previous startup experience
Nice-to-have: DevOps or platform/infrastructure experience (or deep interest)
Nice-to-have: Experience with AI prototyping tools like v0, Lovable, Replit, etc.
Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that’s ok! We are open to great people from non-traditional backgrounds.
Vendelux is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.
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