Software Engineer, Reporting & Insights

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 What We're Looking For: Required Qualifications 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 Nice to Have 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 Interview Overview 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)   Location Preferences We are currently prioritizing candidates based in Bulgaria. Qualified candidates located in the United Kingdom and Ireland are also encouraged to apply. Travel & Team Engagement Expectations 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. Salary The anticipated salary range for this role in Bulgaria is €22,000 – 26,000+ annually, depending on experience. Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted. If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate. Why Muck Rack? 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