Principal Engineer Customer Data Platform - NYC

Rokt is a hyper-growth ecommerce leader enabling companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying.
New York, NY, USA
$312,000
Backend
Principal Software Engineer
Hybrid
10+ years of experience
AI · E-Commerce

Description For Principal Engineer Customer Data Platform - NYC

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.

As a Principal Engineer at Rokt, you will be a technology thought leader across several teams. You will be the technical owner of several components of the overall Rokt product and be responsible for the delivery of features as well as driving technical excellence.

Responsibilities:

  • Interfaces with EMs and Senior Manager or above and enables Staff Engineers to engage on initiatives
  • Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity
  • Identifying and proposing improvements to the current system architecture that emphasize reliability and scalability
  • Working with the product and engineering teams to produce development plans and see through to delivery and success
  • Teach, grow and mentor the team, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across several teams

We offer a great list of perks and benefits, including:

  • Accelerate your career with roadmaps to leadership and an annual $5000 training allowance
  • Become a shareholder with equity in the company
  • Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office, plus join the gym on us
  • Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and fully funded premium health insurance for your entire family
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)
  • Work with the greatest talent in town
  • See the world with 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.

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Responsibilities For Principal Engineer Customer Data Platform - NYC

  • Interfaces with EMs and Senior Manager or above and enables Staff Engineers to engage on initiatives
  • Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity
  • Identifying and proposing improvements to the current system architecture that emphasize reliability and scalability
  • Working with the product and engineering teams to produce development plans and see through to delivery and success
  • Teach, grow and mentor the team, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across several teams

Requirements For Principal Engineer Customer Data Platform - NYC

Java
Python
JavaScript
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years of experience in commercial software development experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems
  • Polyglot engineer with commercial experience in one of the following: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript or Go
  • Strong complex system architecture design experience and understanding
  • Learn quickly: demonstrated ability to quickly understand and absorb new information
  • Problem-solving skills: able to use first principles to solve complex problems
  • Leadership: organize and motivate engineering contributors
  • Excellent communication skills in English
  • Willingness to be on-call and respond to system alerts
  • Ideas, opinions, and the ability to share them through respectful proposals, presentations, and team-wide discussions
  • A willingness and comfort communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools

Benefits For Principal Engineer Customer Data Platform - NYC

401k
Medical Insurance
Equity
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
  • Equity
  • Training allowance
  • Catered lunch
  • Gym membership
  • 401k matching
  • Health insurance
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Extra leave
  • Global offices

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