Senior Software Engineer - Backend - ZipRecruiter : Job Details

mParticle by Rokt is widely recognized as one of the leading customer data platforms, serving hundreds of global brands and helping them turn data to insights and insights to action. Built on top of end-to-end streaming architecture, we are committed to empowering businesses to deliver personalized and engaging experiences to their customers across all screens and devices. In January 2025, mParticle merged with Rokt and became mParticle by Rokt.

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 by the world's leading companies.

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.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. We have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Target total compensation of $325,000 including a fixed annual salary of $225,000 (with superannuation for AU roles), an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.

As a Senior 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: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or Go.
• Experience in any of the following: web application development, distributed systems, cloud platforms such as AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, SQL.
• Strong background in designing and building high-throughput low-latency distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Willingness to be on-call and respond to systems alerts.
• Ability to share ideas and proposals respectfully.
• Comfort in communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools.

Benefits:

About Rokt'stars: We are a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers.

About The Benefits:

• Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual $10,000 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! [US ONLY]
• Dog-friendly office [NY OFFICE ONLY]
• 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.

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

Note: The first stage of the recruitment process for this role is to complete a 15-minute online aptitude test, which will be sent out to your application email.