We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to increase value by unlocking real-time relevancy in the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, our AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions connecting 400 million customers across the world's leading companies. In January 2025, Rokt's valuation increased to $3.5 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 understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It 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're Looking for Senior Software Engineers
Target total compensation ranges from $300,000 - $435,000, made up of a fixed annual salary of $200,000 - $285,000 (including superannuation), and employee equity plan grant . In addition, you will receive world-class employee benefits.
About the Roles
Instead of siloed technology specialists, Rokt looks to hire ‘T-Shape’ software engineers. Diversely skilled, technology agnostic coders who are interested in working across the stack.
We are currently looking for several talented Senior Software Engineers to join our Core Platform team. These roles will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the scalable services that power Rokt’s ecommerce platform - and over 6 billion transactions per year!
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve code that solves real-world problems with scalable services which deal with ultra high-throughput.
- Consistently research and leverage AI tooling/LLMs to automate manual processes, accelerate learning, and enhance developer productivity
- Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables, owning and operating with autonomy in solving problems.
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills, a passion for technology, and a desire to work on deep and interesting technical problems.
Projects you may work on:
- Building a massive open-source data storage and ingestion platform to support the entire Rokt ecosystem, scaling complex data systems built on open-source technologies like Apache Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Iceberg, and Trino.
- Designing, implementing, and optimising machine learning infrastructure supporting all of Rokt’s ML initiatives - collaborating with data scientists and engineers to support efficient data access, model management, and deployment.
- Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services, APIs and the front end SDKs that consume them to power Rokt’s web and mobile applications.
- Developing and maintaining comprehensive anomaly detection monitoring systems across the Rokt network.
- Refining and optimising Rokt’s Web and Mobile SDK, delivering seamless integration and user experience with first-class performance, security, scalability, and efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) and 5+ years of experience in commercial software development, designing, building, and operating distributed systems.
- Solid experience in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Scala, TypeScript, Python, C#, Java, Rust).
- Specialist knowledge in one or more of the following: Web Front-end, scalable APIs, Data Engineering, Data Science, ML-Ops, SRE, or high-throughput/low latency Distributed Systems
- Experience working with cloud-based applications, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization & orchestration tools (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Ability to build, test deploy and maintain your own code in production - own your work, always keeping the customer at the forefront.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to troubleshoot issues, optimise performance, and implement and maintain scalable solutions.
- Ability to turn ambiguity into clarity, and be comfortable treading new ground.
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams, document technical designs, and present ideas clearly.
- 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 system alerts should they arise.
Benefits
About Rokt’stars:
As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy 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:
- All employees have access to our LevelUp! program, providing opportunities for coaching, courses, and training to support career growth and development.
- 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.
We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here, and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.
Top Skills
Rokt Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Located in trendy Surry Hills, our Sydney office is based in the cultural epicentre of the city and only minutes away from Central Station. Amazing eateries, bars, and galleries are in walking distance, as is Prince Alfred park and pool for that lunch break workout.
