Senior Software Engineer, Backend

RapidSOS

Senior Software Engineer building scalable, reliable backend systems that power RapidSOS's critical workflows. Collaborating with teams to ensure high-performance and resilient systems.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $155,000 - $185,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSKafkaPythonRabbitMQ

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonasynchronous systemsevent-driven systemsRabbitMQKafkaSQSRESTful APIsAWSrelational databasesnon-relational databases

Soft Skills

communication skillsinterpersonal skillsteam playerself-motivatedadaptabilityownershipcustomer-centric mindsetproblem solvingcollaborationpositive attitude