Senior Software Engineer | Hybrid, Equity & Cloud Platform

Rappel; Town of Oakland (WI); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock option grant

Healthcare

Dental

Vision

401K

Job summary

Rappel seeks a Senior Engineer to build robust, scalable software across data pipelines, customer portals and cloud infrastructure. You will join a small team transforming an internal tool into a platform, focusing on stability and forward-looking design.

You will own architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and delivery to translate customer needs into deployed features, leveraging AI and cloud-native solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer engineering, computer science, or related field.
• 5-7 years of full-time software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python is a must.
• Proficiency with back-end technologies and runtime environments such as Python or Node.js.
• Proficiency building and deploying APIs (REST/GraphQL).
• Strong proficiency with cloud computing platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and container technologies (Docker).
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL.
• Experience in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS/Tailwind, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
• Expertise with Git and GitHub.
• Track record displaying increasing ownership over technical architecture and/or system design.
• Track record of leading technical initiatives and mentoring other engineers.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Exposure to incorporating LLMs and other agentic tools into cloud native systems to enhance analytics and data processing

Responsibilities

• Work with a small team to plan, develop and test complex business software as it evolves into a platform.
• Collaborate with Product and Delivery to turn customer needs into shipped features.
• Develop domain expertise across Rappel's stack and business context, including carbon and economic modeling principles.
• Define and maintain the long-term technical architecture, guiding scalability and reliability.
• Manage development cycles to align technical decisions with business priorities.
• Model technical excellence and foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture.
• Promote data engineering best practices to improve efficiency and leverage AI and cloud technologies.
• Recommend improvements to product design and strategy for robustness and maintainability.
• Stay updated on external cloud solutions and socialise opportunities for expanded applicability

Skills

Python

Node.js

REST API

GraphQL

Cloud platforms

Docker

PostgreSQL

React

Git / GitHub

Software architecture

Leadership / mentoring

Communication

LLMs exposure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/CS

Tools

Dagster

DuckDB

Terraform

Bicep

OpenTelemetry

Application Insights

Job description

Rappel seeks a Senior Engineer to build robust, scalable software across data pipelines, customer portals and cloud infrastructure. You will join a small team transforming an internal tool into a platform, focusing on stability and forward-looking design.

You will own architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and delivery to translate customer needs into deployed features, leveraging AI and cloud-native solutions.