Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Rokt, Australia
Job Description
Rokt makes e-commerce smarter, faster, and better. When customers are buying online, they increasingly expect more personalized and relevant experiences. Rokt uses real-time data and decisioning to deliver the next best action for each person in each Transaction Moment. Founded in Sydney in 2012, Rokt now operates in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, The Netherlands, Spain, and Japan. Our clients include Live Nation, Staples, Groupon, GoDaddy, Expedia, Wells Fargo, Vistaprint, and HelloFresh. Rokt unlocks the hidden potential in every single Transaction Moment.
With an annual revenue run rate of more than USD$100m and a vibrant company culture, Rokt was recently listed in Built In NYC's ‘Best Places to Work’ in New York. Our award-winning culture is guided by our four core values: Smart with Humility, Customer Obsessed, Conquer New Frontiers, and Enjoy the Ride. These values help us recruit, retain, and promote the right talent around the globe and ensure we have the right conditions to do our best work. Rokt closed our Series D in 2020, raising US$80m from TDM Growth Partners and existing investors. The investment supports our continued investment in research and development.
We are profitable, growing fast, and having fun transforming the world of e-commerce.
Learn more at rokt.com.
Rokt’s engineering teams are expanding rapidly. Currently approximately 120 engineers in our Sydney office, and a small team in New York, and we have ambitious plans to grow the team in both regions this year.
Our Sydney team is looking for talented Senior Software Engineers, with a proven track record in developing world class cloud based systems. There are multiple opportunities in Backend, Frontend and Fullstack roles, to join any one of our 17 scrum teams and make an immediate impact. We encourage engineers to move between teams, and even between regions, to facilitate their personal development goals and energise their career.
The Tech
Rokt is building a globally distributed microservices based platform, hosted on AWS. Our tech stack comprises a multitude of different technologies, chosen by each team to solve their specific problem.
We have invested heavily in an event based architecture, utilising message queuing technologies, pub/sub models, and event streaming to construct a highly available, high volume, distributed system. We have services in 5 AWS regions, with the core systems residing in Oregon USA.
On the backend we employ Python, C#, Golang, Java and NodeJS, to name a few. The frontend is crafted with React and Angular frameworks, using Typescript and raw JavaScript. A variety of relational and nosql databases such as Postgresql, DynamoDB and Redshift facilitate our persistence layer and data warehousing needs.
All teams craft their infrastructure as code using CloudFormation, and run their services on Kubernetes. Each team owns their build/test/deploy pipelines and system monitoring amp; alerting. Our philosophy is you build it, you own it.
You are a self-starter with a genuine passion for software engineering. You strive for quality in everything you do, whilst remaining pragmatic and value driven.
You have a track record of overcoming challenges through innovative yet practical ideas and regularly discover, learn and experiment with new technologies. You demonstrate ownership and consistently drive to tangible outcomes.
You leave your ego at the door, and constantly seek opportunities to learn from or mentor your colleagues. You take ownership of your failures and recognise the growth opportunities they present.
You are a respected individual who works well with your team and management alike.
- Working together with the Product Manager and the rest of the team in an agile setting, to take high-level requirements and define concrete plans/designs for implementation
- Developing high-quality, performant and easy-to-maintain code and tests
- Conducting spikes and build prototypes to test ideas
- Respond to alerts, troubleshoot issues in either code or infrastructure
- Maintaining system health and reliability in an AWS/Kubernetes environment
- Facilitating collaboration within the team and outside of the team
- Lead end to end design and mentor junior team members
Requirements
- 5+ years in commercial software development experience designing, building and operating microservices in a complex setting
- Solid knowledge of .Net (C#) - you write performant easy-to-maintain code using best practices
- Experience working in a Scrum or Kanban environment
- BSc, MSc or above in Computer Science or equivalent, or similar experience
- Effective communicator across all levels of the organisation
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