Lead Systems Architect - High-Throughput Backend (Hybrid)

Rokt; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 470,000 - 615,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401K matching

Health insurance

Wellness allowances

Daily catered lunch

Dog-friendly offices

Extra leave

Job summary

Rokt is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable services powering its ecommerce platform. You will set technical direction across teams for high-throughput systems handling billions of transactions.

Pathways to Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager tracks exist, with a hybrid work structure and world-class benefits. You will mentor engineers and drive improvements across reliability, latency, and cost.

Qualifications

• Relevant bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) and 10+ years in commercial software development.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems at internet scale.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation/orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of high-throughput, low-latency services in Go, Scala, Java, C#, or TypeScript.
• Drive systemic performance optimisations and refactors that improve reliability, latency, and cost across multiple services or teams.
• Lead root cause analysis on complex production incidents and drive the engineering response.
• Own architectural decisions and lead system design reviews across teams for scalable solutions.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and support their growth toward technical leadership.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering and product leadership to plan and manage roadmap delivery.
• Set standards for technical excellence, from coding to architectural best practices.

Skills

Go

Scala

Java

C#

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Rokt is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable services powering its ecommerce platform. You will set technical direction across teams for high-throughput systems handling billions of transactions.

Pathways to Principal Engineer or Engineering Manager tracks exist, with a hybrid work structure and world-class benefits. You will mentor engineers and drive improvements across reliability, latency, and cost.