Staff Software Engineer - mParticle - NYC

Company: Rokt
Location: New York
Posted on: April 3, 2025

Job Description:

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. We believe that the opportunity to help teams activate insights from their customer data to deliver more relevant and adaptive experiences is more important than ever. In January 2025 mParticle merged with Rokt and became mParticle by Rokt. Together, our AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions, connecting 400 million customers across the world's leading companies.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 to do this by the world's leading companies.We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue-and often all their profits-from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.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. It 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 (Backend)Target total compensation of $291,000 - $375,000, including a fixed annual salary of $200,000 to $250,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.As a Senior/Staff 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 problemsOwn complex product features end to end - with a focus on customer impactManage priorities, deadlines and deliverablesOperate with autonomy in solving problemsCollaborate with other teams to deliver new productsCreate fast, scalable and easy-to-use applicationsBuild libraries and frameworks that others can useTake responsibility for system health, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD pipelinesSupport and mentor other engineers on best practices, architecture, and qualityRequirementsAbout 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, SQLStrong 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 toolsBenefitsAbout Rokt'stars:As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy 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 training allowanceBecome a shareholder. Every Rokt'star gets equity in the companyEnjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.Dog-friendly officeExtra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)Work with the greatest talent in townSee the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and LondonWe 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.We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.If this sounds like a role you'd enjoy, apply here, and you'll hear from our recruiting team.

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