Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Remote
7+ Years Experience
HR Tech • Information Technology • Software • Database
We connect professionals to new opportunities, powered by the largest and most accurate contacts on this planet.
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own mission-critical applications, collaborating with a team to build services for RocketReach’s integrations platform, Enterprise API, and AI automation. You will design and develop new features and iterate on existing functionalities to enhance customer satisfaction and drive growth.
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Why RocketReach

Over 21 Million users around the world use RocketReach.co. Some of the largest companies in the world - Apple, Google, Amazon, Adobe, Morgan Stanley, trust RocketReach to power their sales, recruitment, and marketing teams. We are scaling our 21M users and our dataset of 700 million professionals across 60 million companies.

RocketReach is rare and unique; a startup that is in high-growth mode, already highly profitable, with a small team where you can make a gigantic impact. Started in 2016, the company was bootstrapped by its founders, focused on building a great product. Our Mission is to Connect professionals to new opportunities, powered by the largest and most accurate contacts on this planet. In a few short years, we’ve grown organically to become one the largest business info-services platforms and the de-facto productivity solution for sales and recruitment teams at companies of all sizes, worldwide.

Our success lies in our culture, which is very much driven by our core values:

🌎 Down to Earth ~ Low-Ego: we are a uniquely humble group that values being low-ego more than anything, and we have a strict no asshole policy.

🚀 One Rocket, One Crew~ Collaborative: A team that can support each other, give and receive productive feedback, as well as coach and be coached is at the heart of our collaborative environment.

 📊Fueled by Data ~ Data-driven Decisions: Our decisioning is based on data, it is the currency on which we drive the business forward. Data is the Northstar of our product and our organization internally.

💡Houston we have a Solution~ Solution-oriented: We are expert problem-solvers. Finding the right solution and the best possible way to get there together, is what our team strives for.

The Role

RocketReach is in a period of rapid growth and we are looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team!

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are responsible for owning mission-critical applications end-to-end. You will work collaboratively with the team to build services that power RocketReach’s third-party integrations platform, Enterprise API, and AI-driven automation capabilities.

We Are Looking For People Who

  • Have deep experience architecting and working on complex web-based applications across the stack
  • Are highly skilled in the following or similar technologies: Python, Linux, PostgreSQL, AWS
  • Write clean, non-repetitive, well-tested code that can scale to millions of requests per hour
  • Are product-driven and enjoy collaborating with a cross-functional team to bring value to customers
  • Are curious, unafraid to ask questions, and have strong communication skills
  • Like autonomy and function well in low-control/high-uncertainty environments
  • Feel confident with the ability to lead projects and own products end-to-end with the team
  • Care about working with talented, low-ego, overall good people
  • Embrace continuous delivery by deploying code early and often to create ongoing value for customers

What You Get to Do

  • Design and develop new product features that will benefit millions of RocketReach customers
  • Iterate on existing functionality to ensure the greatest level of adoption, customer satisfaction, and growth across the product
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams to build well-designed and scalable solutions that meet the needs of our users
  • Work across the stack, including backend services, cloud-based infrastructure, databases, and third-party partner APIs
  • Mentor engineers on your immediate team to establish best practices and standards throughout the code base
  • Create monitoring and observability capabilities to maintain high levels of performance and uptime for the products that you support
Why Join Us?
  • Product and Engineering Driven: We strongly believe the quality of our Product will set us apart from the competition.  We have a Product-led culture, with our Founders as our first engineers.  Low tech debt has allowed us to scale the business with an extremely high caliber team.
  • Exponential Growth:  RocketReach’s business has nearly doubled every year since inception, and COVID has created tailwinds that have accelerated our growth.
  • Profitable not "Profitable": We're actually profitable. Unlike many other companies our size and age, we’re not burning through millions to generate $1000s in income.  We are actually comfortably profitable, and actively investing that profit in order to continue to scale the business.
  • Data not egos: Product at RocketReach is driven by agility and experimentation.  Our decisioning is based on data, it is the currency on which we drive the business forward.
  • Close knit, distributed: RocketReach has a small, but hyper productive team. We're spread around the globe, yet constantly in touch.  Each role we hire has an immediate, outsized impact on the business.
  • Strong Leadership: We have a genuine investment in our people and care that you are happy at work!

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive Salary 
  • 401(k) matching
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Strong Leadership - we care that you are happy at work!
  • Investment in culture and resources for a distributed team 
  • Incredible amount of autonomy

RocketReach is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, or protected veteran status.

Top Skills

Python
The Company
New York, NY
90 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

RocketReach is remote first, with team members in major cities across the U.S., and offices in NYC and Seattle.
RocketReach is rare and unique; a startup that is in high-growth mode, already highly profitable, with a small team where you can make a gigantic impact. Started in 2016, the company was bootstrapped by its founders, focused on building a great product. In a few short years, we’ve grown organically to become one of the largest business info-services platforms and the de-facto productivity solution for sales and recruitment teams at companies of all sizes, worldwide.

More than 13 million users around the world use RocketReach.co. Some of the largest companies in the world - Apple, Google, Amazon, Adobe, Morgan Stanley, trust RocketReach to power their sales, recruitment, and marketing teams.

Why Work With Us

We are people-first and look within to understand how to support our unique and incredible team. We have a no-asshole policy - we leave our egos at the door. At RR, we promote from within, prioritize growth and development, and work with team members to reach their full potential. Join our team and you'll have a crew here ready to support you!

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