Rokt Hiring for Senior Software Engineer – Frontend Job at New York, NY Full Time

With a recent Series E raise of USD$325M from top investors like Tiger Global, Rokt is poised for rapid growth as we prepare for our IPO. Come join our growing team – operating in 19+ markets worldwide, with its headquarters in NYC, and a major R&D hub in Sydney. Listed as ‘Great Places to Work’ in the US and Australia, Rokt’s ecommerce technology helps companies like Live Nation, Groupon, Staples, Lands’ End, Fanatics, GoDaddy, Vistaprint and HelloFresh seize the full potential of every transaction moment to grow revenue and acquire new customers at scale. Our award-winning culture is guided by our five core values: Smart with Humility, Own the Outcomes, Force for Good, Conquer New Frontiers, and Enjoy the Ride. These values help us attract, engage, and develop the right talent around the globe and ensure we have the right conditions to do our best work.

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 better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which gives engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. We are expanding rapidly in our major R&D centers in NYC and Sydney. We are passionate about using intelligent systems to improve the Transaction Moment™ for retailers everywhere. Come join us and build the future! About the role:

As a Senior Front-end Engineer at Rokt, you will be part of an autonomous team owning a specific problem space in our frontend. You will be working closely with other software engineers and product managers in your team on solving interesting problems and driving business value. Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, deploy and improve code that solves real world problems
• Own complex product features end to end – with a focus on impact with customers
• Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Operate with autonomy in solving problems
• Collaborate with other teams to deliver new products
• Responsible for server-side and client-side feature work across varied browser-based UIs
• Contribute towards creating best practice web experiences
• Build and maintain complex, varied browser-based UIs
• Build and maintain large, state-heavy applications
• Build and maintain SDKs used by our clients
• Optimize code we deliver to users for maximum performance. Every millisecond and kilobyte matters
• Support and mentor other engineers on best practices, architecture, and quality

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience, or 4 years with an advanced degree, in commercial software development experience designing, building and operating distributed systems
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript and one other programming language. You have written a lot of performant easy-to-maintain code using best practices. You can smell bad code and provide constructive feedback during code review
• Deep understanding of latest web standards including HTML and building complex and responsive layouts using CSS
• Extensive experience working with web browsers. You understand how varied HTML, CSS, and JavaScript implementations can be across competing browsers
• Experience with one or more JavaScript UI frameworks; React, Vue, Angular, etc. We have projects in React and Angular
• Experience with complex state management in JavaScript. You know how to manage complex state using Redux, Context, or similar. And know when to use none of the above
• Experience in any of the following: web/mobile application development, distributed/parallel systems, data structures, systems/security software development, CI/CD pipelines and automation, NodeJS
• Solid experience with a major cloud provider (preferably AWS)
• 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 communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools