Senior Software Engineer - NYC

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New York, NY
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Digital Media • eCommerce • Machine Learning • Marketing Tech • Software
A mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, intent on unleashing relevancy in ecommerce.
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Rokt, you will design, develop, test, and improve backend code to address real-world problems while managing complex product features and collaborating across teams. You'll ensure system health and mentor other engineers in best practices.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries.

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 better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and 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.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. 

At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt’stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for Senior and Staff Software Engineers

Compensation: $175,000 - $300,000 salary, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits

As a Software Engineer, you will be part of an autonomous team owning a specific problem space in one of our backend development teams. You will be working closely with other software engineers and product managers in your team on solving interesting problems and driving business values.

About the Role:

  • Design, develop, test, deploy and improve code that solves real-world problems
  • Own complex product features end to end - with a focus on customer impact
  • Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables
  • Operate with autonomy in solving problems
  • Collaborate with other teams to deliver new products
  • Create fast, scalable and easy-to-use applications
  • Build libraries and frameworks that others can use
  • Take responsibility for system health, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Support and mentor other engineers on best practices, architecture, and quality

Requirements

About You:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years of experience, or 4 years with an advanced degree, 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 the full potential 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:

  • Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual $5000 training allowance
  • Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
  • Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! 
  • Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and get fully funded premium health insurance for your entire family!
  • 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 also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.

If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.

Top Skills

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

What the Team is Saying

Nao Kobayashi
Jon Humphrey
Julie Kremer
Alex Lannigan
Shenika Louis
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The Company
New York, NY
500 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology, enabling companies like Uber, Live Nation, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Hulu, Staples, and Lands’ End to unleash relevancy in every transaction, grow revenue, and acquire new customers at scale. Founded in 2012 in Australia, the company now operates in 14 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with the largest office now in New York City. To learn more, visit Rokt.com.

Why Work With Us

Join a team of diverse individuals who thrive by challenging the status quo and working in different ways. People not inspired by job titles, but inspired by people.

Learn, grow, learn some more. Develop your voice, your ideas, your ability to help others. Become a leader. Explore possibilities. At Rokt you’ll unleash your full potential.

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We believe we are better together. We spend most of our time in the office (most teams are 4 days a week). One week per quarter, you also have the flexibility to work from anywhere.

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