RapidSOS
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
New York City (Remote) or Boston (Remote) · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$155k-$185kDetected 54 days ago
PythonCode ReviewAWSRESTKafkaRabbitMQWebSocketsAccessibilityVoIPCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- In the time it takes you to read this job description, RapidSOS will have handled ~1,380 emergencies.
- The salary range for this role is $155,000 - $185,000.
- This role will also be eligible to receive equity options. #LI-Remote RapidSOS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of new features, leveraging Python
- Lead strategic architectural decisions, help drive alignment, and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and accessibility
- Collaborate in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, Design, GTM, and Product to develop solutions for RapidSOS products
- Own meaningful parts of our platform, have an impact, grow with the company
- Strong experience building distributed, asynchronous, event-driven systems that support high-volume workloads using message bus technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, etc.
- Ideally has experience building AI-driven features or using AI tools to enhance acceleration of development, and is proactive about leveraging emerging technologies
- Ability and willingness to collaborate in-person a few times per quarter, or as needed
- Real-time data from the world's largest safety network of 700M+ devices, 200+ global enterprises, and 23,000+ federal, state and local agencies fuels the RapidSOS HARMONY AI engine that delivers this intelligence to those who need it most.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend experience with deep expertise in Python
- Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in an AWS environment
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
- ability to adapt and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of ownership
- Strong proficiency in coding best practices. ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
- Demonstrated expertise in problem solving - from troubleshooting issues to debugging a large codebase
- Experience with telephony / VoIP / SIP
- Experience with websockets
- Nice-to-have experience (but not required!):
Compensation
- The salary range for this role is $155,000 - $185,000.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation
- A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
- Starting pay for a successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include experience, relevant skills, training, education, location, business needs, or market demands.
- This role will also be eligible to receive equity options. #LI-Remote
- This role will also be eligible to receive equity options. #LI-Remote RapidSOS is proud to be an
Company info
- Customer-centric mindset; cares deeply about delivering solutions that enable and delight customers while meeting product goals
- At RapidSOS, we are committed to using technology to build a safer, stronger future and working together to save lives.
- We're in an exciting phase of growth, welcoming new members from across the globe to our mission-driven, ambitious, and inclusive team.
- Our work is founded on our values of elevating purpose, inventing tomorrow, delivering with urgency, serving with integrity, and winning together, all of which support a company culture where people can innovate, collaborate, grow, and, above all, make an impact.
- RapidSOS is the leading public safety AI company that unlocks mission-critical intelligence for first responders and security teams - enabling faster, smarter and more accurate emergency response.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity workplace.
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status
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