Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader, is looking to solve the problem of unlocking real-time relevance in ecommerce by building best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally.
Requirements
- At least 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Architect, build, and scale backend services that power critical systems across Rokt's ecommerce platform.
Other
- Target total compensation of $245,000 - $400,000, including a fixed annual salary of $170,000 - $260,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.
- Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.
- 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
- Dog-friendly office and extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)
- 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.
