Senior Software Engineer, Backend

🕒 May 29

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $155k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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RapidSOS

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

🔌 API

💰 $75M Venture Round on 2022-10

Emergency Services • Public Safety • API

RapidSOS is a company that connects data from various devices directly to emergency services like 911 to enhance public safety. They offer a range of products designed to provide real-time incident data to emergency communication centers and field responders, improving the speed and effectiveness of emergency response. Their solutions include call transcription, translation, and connecting safety data from devices, apps, and sensors directly to 911. RapidSOS collaborates with businesses, public safety agencies, and vendors to integrate their API into safety solutions, enabling features like text-to-911 and digital alert systems for schools, rail safety, home security, and more.

📋 Description

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of new features, leveraging Python • Lead strategic architectural decisions, help drive alignment, and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and accessibility • Use best-in-class software development practices (unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, monitoring, detailed functional specification and test plans) to ensure RapidSOS' products remain highly reliable and fault tolerant • Identify opportunities to assess and enhance current applications, including refactoring code and upgrading technologies used • Collaborate in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, Design, GTM, and Product to develop solutions for RapidSOS products • Leverage modern AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar) to accelerate delivery and improve code quality • Actively participate in code reviews and standups, sharing knowledge, championing best practices, and contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes • Own meaningful parts of our platform, have an impact, grow with the company

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend experience with deep expertise in Python • Strong experience building asynchronous, event-driven systems using message bus technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, etc. • Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in an AWS environment • Experience working with relational and non-relational databases • Ideally has experience building AI-driven features or using AI tools to enhance acceleration of development, and is proactive about leveraging emerging technologies • Strong communication and interpersonal skills; is a team player with a positive attitude • Highly self-motivated; ability to adapt and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of ownership • Strong proficiency in coding best practices – ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code • Customer-centric mindset; cares deeply about delivering solutions that enable and delight customers while meeting product goals • Demonstrated expertise in problem solving – from troubleshooting issues to debugging a large codebase • Ability and willingness to collaborate in-person a few times per quarter, or as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation • A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team • The chance to work with a passionate team on solving one of the largest challenges globally