We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries. 

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 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 a Backend Software Engineer

Compensation: $165,000 - $175,000 salary (including superannuation), employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.

We're seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services that power the API's behind our web and mobile applications. Your primary focus will be on crafting efficient, high-performance code using languages like C#, Go, Java, or Python. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design and build software to delight our customers and implement best practices for security, scalability, and operational efficiency. Your expertise in cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containerization and orchestration tools will contribute to the seamless deployment and maintenance of our backend infrastructure. Strong communication and problem-solving skills, a passion for technology, and a collaborative mindset are essential for success in this role.

About the role: 

• Writing high quality and maintainable code in a modern programming language like C#, Golang, Java or Python.
• Experience in designing and developing highly scalable backend services for RESTful or GraphQL APIs to serve web and mobile applications that solve real-world problems.
• Understanding of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes for deploying and managing backend applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, and implement and maintain scalable solutions. 
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, document technical designs, and present ideas clearly. Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables. Own and operate with autonomy in solving problems, always keeping the customer at the forefront.

About you:

• 3+ years of experience in a backend engineering role designing, building, and operating modern distributed systems, using modern programming languages like C#, Golang, Java or Python. 
• Extensive experience working with cloud-based applications, containerization and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• System architecture design experience and understanding; space/time complexity, API contract design. 
• Good understanding of distributed and scalable systems - you can design, build and maintain complex systems with a desire to work on deep and interesting technical problems.
• Ability to work in fast paced teams and comfort in communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools.

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential 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 $5000 training allowance
• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! 
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
• Work with the greatest talent in town
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We 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.

If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.

Note: This position requires the Australian Baseline Security Clearance. If offered employment, you must be willing to complete and successfully pass the adjudication process. Australian citizens currently residing in Australia for at least the past 3 years will be considered.

Responsibilities 

• Promote and support change management processes at a global level. The GCO Change Management team is a trusted partner in our Global Cloud Service organization.
• Partner and collaborate with internal stakeholders, external partners and customers globally to address process improvement and implement effective and resilient solutions.
• Proactively collaborate with global Senior Management and peer Change Managers to ensure we meet OKRs and company priorities.
• Provide training, coaching and guidance of Change Management process to the Global Cloud Services team.
• Participate, influence and lead cross-functional or multiple projects while maintaining the balance of running BAU tasks.
• Play a key role in defining requirements and participating in large-scale/high visibility programs and projects, allowing Global Cloud Services to effectively deliver scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of training programs.
• Actively facilitate the creation of documentation and other Knowledge resources, while driving compliance with established Knowledge Management policies, practices and standards
• Good communication is a must. Dealing with business partners is a very important aspect of this role.
• Strong teamwork, flexibility and interpersonal skills are a must. Strong collaboration and valuing other ideas and contributions. The role will require looking after 3 different environments along with other Change Managers in the region.
• Requires attention to detail as the role requires different forms of reporting, pre & post-implementation review of changes, inter and intra-team discussions around change implementation and audits.
• Chair the Change Advisory Board (CAB) meeting, produce the meeting agenda and distribute meeting minutes to stakeholders.
• Participate in external and internal audits as the subject matter expert for Global Cloud Services Change Management, demonstrating adequacy and effectiveness of internal change controls.

Who is the TDO?

The Technical Duty Officer team has a mission to support and protect all of ServiceNow’s public services. This role is unique in the tech industry and allows the TDOs access and engagement with teams across ServiceNow.

We leverage our broad technical experience to keep critical systems running through any event. TDOs execute fixes during Internet outages, hardware failures, configuration mishaps, and natural disasters.

We have a mandate to own these problems and see them through to resolution. Unlike traditional operations roles, we have the sole authority to make any necessary changes to fix issues and bring services back online.

The TDO is the last stop in escalation and always resolves the problem. Our organisation hires subject matter experts in CloudOps, Development, Systems Engineering, and Networking. We provide leadership to a strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. We attack problems from fine grained Linux kernel configurations to large scale capacity constraints.  The TDO provides solutions to ServiceNow’s planet-scale challenges.

What you get to do in this role

• Leverage your extensive system, network, and database skills to provide technical leadership for a team of on-site engineers who are responsible for the availability and performance of ServiceNow's cloud platform.
• Coordinate all recovery efforts and Lead as the crisis manager during all major outages to provide rapid relief and resolution to any issue that could be impacting the operational environment.
• Develop new solutions and build requirements for new procedures and automation and verify that these new services meet our needs before they are released to the production environment.
• Drive organisation-wide change (global) by participating in post-incident reviews, approving new architectural designs, and establishing strong relationships by working with many cross-functional teams.
• Make operations more effective by continually training and mentoring the team on all aspects of the operational environment.