Software Engineer, Rokt
Distributed Systems
$170-210k
+ Equity
4 days a week in office ( New York City, NY)
eCommerce technology & software solutions
Open for applications
eCommerce technology & software solutions
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$170-210k
+ Equity
4 days a week in office ( New York City, NY)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make eCommerce smarter, faster, and better.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a Software Engineer with deep experience in distributed systems to join our team in New York City
- At least 4-5 years of experience building production-grade distributed systems at scale
- Proficiency in Go, Java, or similar backend languages, and strong understanding of concurrency, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience designing APIs
- Strong command of system observability, incident response, and fault-tolerant architectures
- Familiarity with cloud-native stacks (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and CI/CD tooling
- Effective communicator and mentor; able to lead discussions and influence design decisions
- Excited by Rokt’s AI-first culture, and eager to raise the bar across architecture, delivery, and engineering culture
What the job involves
- You will architect, build, and scale backend services that power critical systems across Rokt's ecommerce platform
- You’ll work on systems that demand low latency, high throughput, and rock-solid reliability—while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, improve resilience, and increase autonomy
- As an engineer, you will drive projects from design through delivery, mentoring others and contributing to our engineering best practices
- You’ll partner cross-functionally with Product, ML, and SRE to ensure performance and scalability as Rokt continues to scale globally
- Design and implement distributed systems and backend APIs that scale to billions of transactions per year
- Own architectural decisions and contribute to system design reviews and incident root cause analyses
- Drive performance optimizations and refactors to improve system reliability, latency, and cost
- Leverage AI/ML frameworks and tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Datadog AI, etc.) to speed up delivery and reduce toil
- Mentor junior engineers and set technical direction for the team on scalability and observability best practices
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align engineering delivery with business objectives
Application process
- The first stage of the recruitment process for this role is to complete a 15-minute online aptitude test as well as an employee personality profile assessment, which will be sent out to your application email
- Successful candidates will be contacted to discuss the 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 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 $120B global operation - 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: $488.6m
Company benefits
- Interest groups, sports clubs, and social events
- Global training events & online training courses
- Stock options
- Global all-staff events in amazing locations (Phuket, Thailand in January 2020)
- Generous relocation packages
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Mental health and wellness days
- Paid Sabbatical for employees who have been with us 3 years or more
- £55 per month social/wellness allowance, 6 sessions with a licensed therapist, 6 coaching sessions and other mental health perks
- Gym membership
- Premium health insurance
- £25 per month telephone allowance
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.
Justin Viles
(Advisor)Previously worked on strategic partnerships in the APAC region for Google, before moving on to co-found and serve as CEO at Rocklive.
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