Intelligent safety platform that links life-saving data from connected devices with 911 and first responders.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Location
New York
Posted
19 hours ago
Salary
$155K - $185K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
RapidSOS
• 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 • Use best-in-class software development practices (unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, monitoring, detailed functional specification and test plans) to ensure RapidSOS' products remain highly reliable and fault tolerant • Identify opportunities to assess and enhance current applications, including refactoring code and upgrading technologies used • Collaborate in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, Design, GTM, and Product to develop solutions for RapidSOS products • Leverage modern AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar) to accelerate delivery and improve code quality • Actively participate in code reviews and standups, sharing knowledge, championing best practices, and contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes • Own meaningful parts of our platform, have an impact, grow with the company
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend experience with deep expertise in Python
- Strong experience building asynchronous, event-driven systems using message bus technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, etc.
- Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in an AWS environment
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
- Ideally has experience building AI-driven features or using AI tools to enhance acceleration of development, and is proactive about leveraging emerging technologies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; is a team player with a positive attitude
- Highly self-motivated; 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
- Customer-centric mindset; cares deeply about delivering solutions that enable and delight customers while meeting product goals
- Demonstrated expertise in problem solving – from troubleshooting issues to debugging a large codebase
- Ability and willingness to collaborate in-person a few times per quarter, or as needed
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation
- A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team
- The chance to work with a passionate team on solving one of the largest challenges globally
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