Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Why RocketReach

Over 21 Million users around the world use RocketReach.co. Some of the largest companies in the world - Apple, Google, Amazon, Adobe, Morgan Stanley, trust RocketReach to power their sales, recruitment, and marketing teams. We are scaling our 21M users and our dataset of 700 million professionals across 60 million companies.

RocketReach is rare and unique; a startup that is in high-growth mode, already highly profitable, with a small team where you can make a gigantic impact. Started in 2016, the company was bootstrapped by its founders, focused on building a great product. Our Mission is to Connect professionals to new opportunities, powered by the largest and most accurate contacts on this planet. In a few short years, we’ve grown organically to become one the largest business info-services platforms and the de-facto productivity solution for sales and recruitment teams at companies of all sizes, worldwide.

Our success lies in our culture, which is very much driven by our core values:

🌎 Down to Earth ~ Low-Ego: we are a uniquely humble group that values being low-ego more than anything, and we have a strict no asshole policy.

🚀 One Rocket, One Crew~ Collaborative: A team that can support each other, give and receive productive feedback, as well as coach and be coached is at the heart of our collaborative environment.

 📊Fueled by Data ~ Data-driven Decisions: Our decisioning is based on data, it is the currency on which we drive the business forward. Data is the Northstar of our product and our organization internally.

💡Houston we have a Solution~ Solution-oriented: We are expert problem-solvers. Finding the right solution and the best possible way to get there together, is what our team strives for.

The Role

RocketReach is in a period of rapid growth and we are looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team!

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are responsible for owning mission-critical applications end-to-end. You will work collaboratively with the team to build services that power RocketReach’s third-party integrations platform, Enterprise API, and AI-driven automation capabilities.

We Are Looking For People Who

• Have deep experience architecting and working on complex web-based applications across the stack
• Are highly skilled in the following or similar technologies: Python, Linux, PostgreSQL, AWS
• Write clean, non-repetitive, well-tested code that can scale to millions of requests per hour
• Are product-driven and enjoy collaborating with a cross-functional team to bring value to customers
• Are curious, unafraid to ask questions, and have strong communication skills
• Like autonomy and function well in low-control/high-uncertainty environments
• Feel confident with the ability to lead projects and own products end-to-end with the team
• Care about working with talented, low-ego, overall good people
• Embrace continuous delivery by deploying code early and often to create ongoing value for customers

What You Get to Do

• Design and develop new product features that will benefit millions of RocketReach customers
• Iterate on existing functionality to ensure the greatest level of adoption, customer satisfaction, and growth across the product
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams to build well-designed and scalable solutions that meet the needs of our users
• Work across the stack, including backend services, cloud-based infrastructure, databases, and third-party partner APIs
• Mentor engineers on your immediate team to establish best practices and standards throughout the code base
• Create monitoring and observability capabilities to maintain high levels of performance and uptime for the products that you support

Why Join Us?

• Product and Engineering Driven: We strongly believe the quality of our Product will set us apart from the competition.  We have a Product-led culture, with our Founders as our first engineers.  Low tech debt has allowed us to scale the business with an extremely high caliber team.
• Exponential Growth:  RocketReach’s business has nearly doubled every year since inception, and COVID has created tailwinds that have accelerated our growth.
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