Senior Software Engineering Lead (Rokt Thanks)

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt’s AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers, and is trusted to do this by the world’s leading companies.

We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.

Target Total Compensation: $310,000 - $385,000, including a fixed annual salary of $210,000 - $260,000, employee equity grant, and world-class benefits.

Rokt Thanks empowers ecommerce brands to unlock new revenue and delight customers in the moments that matter most—right at the transaction moment. By leveraging AI and a scaled ecommerce network, Rokt Thanks delivers ultra-relevant offers, rewards, and experiences on confirmation and post-transaction pages, turning routine checkouts into opportunities for surprise, engagement, and brand loyalty. In a world overwhelmed by choice, Rokt Thanks cuts through the noise to make every transaction feel personal, memorable, and valuable—for both customers and our partners.

As a Sr Software Engineering Lead on the Rokt Thanks team, you’ll join an autonomous group owning a high-impact problem space in our backend development stack. You’ll collaborate closely with talented engineers and product managers to solve complex technical challenges, drive meaningful business value, and shape the future of post-transaction experiences for millions of shoppers. This is a unique opportunity to lead, innovate, and see your work directly power growth for global brands.

About the role: 

• Lead the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of backend features that drive Rokt Thanks’ post-transaction experiences for millions of shoppers.
• Own complex product areas with a focus on customer and partner impact, operating with high autonomy and accountability.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and data teams to launch new Rokt Thanks features and optimize real-time offer delivery.
• Build scalable, reliable backend systems and reusable frameworks to support seamless, high-volume ecommerce integrations.
• Mentor and support other engineers, championing best practices in architecture, system health, and continuous delivery.

Requirements

We're looking for an engineer who is passionate about data and its potential to transform business.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. 
• 6+ years of experience, or 4 years with an advanced degree, with at least 2 years leading a team in commercial software development experience designing, building and operating distributed systems. 
• Commercial experience in one of the following languages: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or Go. You have written a lot of performant easy-to-maintain code using best practices. 
• Experience in any of the following: web application development, distributed systems, cloud platforms such AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines 
• Strong background in designing and building high-throughput low-latency distributed systems. 
• Excellent communication skills in English - you can explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in writing. 
• At Rokt we encourage autonomy; teams have complete ownership of their systems including building, running and monitoring. As such, you may be required to be on-call and respond to systems alerts should they arise. 
• Ideas, opinions, and the ability to share them through respectful proposals, presentations, and team-wide discussions, An eagerness to work and learn in the open and share your learnings with your teammates. 
• A willingness and comfort in communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools

Benefits

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks, or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better. 

About the Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.
• Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
• Dog-friendly office
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
• Work with the greatest talent in town
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week).

We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.