Staff Software Engineer, Rokt
$470-615k
OTE
$290-360k
BASE
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
eCommerce technology & software solutions
Be an early applicant
eCommerce technology & software solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$470-615k
OTE
$290-360k
BASE
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make eCommerce smarter, faster, and better.
Role
Who you are
- Relevant bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) and 10+ years in commercial software development, designing, building, and operating distributed systems in modern languages like C#, Go, Java, Scala, or TypeScript,
- Track record of owning system architecture and driving delivery in a high-throughput, low-latency production environment at internet scale, with your own designs having gone to production and been operated at scale
- Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following:
- High-throughput, low-latency distributed systems. Designing and operating internet scale backend services and APIs, with versioning, performance, scalability, and reliability treated as first-order concerns
- Data engineering. Building and scaling ingestion and storage on open-source foundations like Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Iceberg, and Trino. Owning data systems that stay correct and queryable as volume grows by orders of magnitude
- MLOps. Building the infrastructure that lets ML move from notebook to production: feature and data access at scale, model management & training, deployment, and the tooling ML Applied Scientists depend on to ship and iterate
- Site Reliability Engineering. Owning the operational surface of high-traffic systems: observability, anomaly detection, incident response, and automations that keep on-call sustainable as the network grows. Owning and Administering cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation and orchestration tools
- Web & Mobile front-end & SDKs. Building and refining Rokt's Web and Mobile Software Development Kits for performance, security, and seamless integration across thousands of partner environments
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer on one of Rokt's core platform teams, you will lead the architecture, design, and delivery of the scalable services behind Rokt's ecommerce platform, setting technical direction across teams for systems that power over 10 billion transactions a year
- Growth: Pathways to Principal Software Engineer (IC Track) and Engineering Manager/Director (People Leader Track) per your preferences and abilities
- Own the architecture, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of high-throughput, low-latency services in languages like Go, Scala, Java, C#, or TypeScript
- Drive systemic performance optimisations and refactors that improve reliability, latency, and cost across multiple services or teams
- Lead root cause analysis on complex, cross-system production incidents, and drive the engineering response that prevents recurrence
- Own architectural decisions and lead system design reviews across teams, ensuring solutions scale as transaction volume and traffic grow
- Research and leverage AI tooling, LLMs, and agents to automate manual processes, accelerate learning, and lift developer productivity across the org
- Contribute to knowledge sharing through tech talks, brown bags, and best practice evangelism
- Act as technical and project leader across a group of engineers spanning one or more teams
- Provide leadership on complex technical issues, unblocking teams and de-risking high-stakes delivery
- Set standards for technical excellence, from coding to architectural best practices
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, and support their growth toward technical leadership
- Work cross-functionally with engineering and product leadership to plan and manage delivery expectations of roadmap items
- Actively monitor progress and intervene where required to mitigate risks and bottlenecks, managing expectations within and outside the team
Application process
- The first stage of Rokt's recruitment process is a 15-minute online aptitude test, which will be sent out to your application email. Successful candidates will be contacted on next steps
Our take
eCommerce marketing company Rokt is helping brands leverage the power of good timing. With Rokt, brands can present their customers with AI-curated offers and messages at every stage in their transaction, at tailored times of the day, or to market themselves at the point of transaction on other major eCommerce sites.
The idea is that “transaction moments” are when shoppers are most inclined to engage further with the brand or its products - the success of Rokt’s clients, and the runaway success of Rokt itself, show that it's successfully cracked it.
Rokt has a strong client base that includes giants like PayPal, Groupon, GoDaddy, and Disney, and after hitting Unicorn status, it is eyeing up a US IPO. This should come as no surprise - the surge in eCommerce trade over recent years has led to most companies investing in tools to stay competitive.
Rokt has expanded its tool suite since it first started up, and will be focused on continuing to innovate to keep ahead of the MarTech pack, and abreast of changing demand in the rapidly shifting market. The eCommerce marketing tech sector has ballooned to a $120 billion global operation - and Rokt is positioned comfortably to keep ahead.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$325m
SERIES E
Oct 2020
$80m
SERIES D
Total funding: $488.1m
Company benefits
- Learning and development: Develop your skills and career through our global training events, self-driven learning programs, and fantastic people leaders.
- Generous PTO and extended leave: When you work hard, we know you also need to rest. We offer generous time off and extended leave policies. Whether you are taking a tenure-based sabbatical or parental leave, we've got you covered.
- Employee equity options: All Rokt’stars have equity ownership. If we succeed, everyone enjoys the upside.
- Catered lunches: Enjoy catered lunch five times a week and healthy snacks in the office.
- Health and wellness benefits: We provide a variety of health (physical and mental) care programs, including a zero-cost monthly premium option in the US. We also offer a monthly wellness allowance and wellness sessions.
- 401K matching: In the U.S., access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401(k) matching plan.
- Dog-friendly office: Pets make our lives better in so many ways. At work, they create a fun and happy environment, encourage conversations, and get us up for regular exercise breaks. Our NYC office is dog-friendly!
- Global travel opportunities: Along with our global all-staff events in amazing locations, we also offer generous relocation packages if you're interested in moving to another Rokt office.
- Hybrid workplace: Enjoy the best of both worlds with 4 days in office and 1 day remote according to our team-based flexibility model.
- Technology allowance: Each Rokt’star has an allowance to use toward buying new technology that tops up every year. As a technology company, we make sure our Rokt’stars are only using the latest and greatest equipment–and you can keep it even if you leave.
Company HQ
Hudson Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Bruce Buchanan
(CEO)Previously a Principal at Boston Consulting Group, before serving as Chief Commercial Officer, then Group Chief Executive Officer at Jetstar Airways.
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