Software Engineer - Frontend - NYC

About Rokt

Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce technology, helping companies seize the full potential of every transaction moment to grow revenue and acquire new customers at scale. Fanatics, Live Nation, AMC Theatres, PayPal, Uber, Hulu, Staples, Lands’ End, and HelloFresh are among the more than 2,500 leading global businesses and advertisers that use Rokt's solutions to drive more value through every transaction by offering highly relevant messages to their customers at the moment they are most likely to convert.

With our December 2022 secondary transaction, Rokt’s valuation increased to $2.4 Billion. We are expanding rapidly and globally – operating in 14 countries across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with the largest office in NYC and a major R&D hub in Sydney. With 50% annual growth and a vibrant company culture, Rokt has been listed in ‘Great Places to Work’ in the US and Australia. Our award-winning culture is guided by our eight core values: smart with humility, own the outcomes, force for good, conquer new frontiers, enjoy the ride, raise the bar, communicate with impact, and disagree then commit. These values help us attract, engage, and develop the right talent around the globe and ensure we foster an environment that helps us all do our best work. Keen to join a fast-growing company and a vibrant culture? Learn more at rokt.com.

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to better understand consumers. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day and considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. We are expanding rapidly in our major R&D centers in NYC and Sydney. We are passionate about using intelligent systems to improve the transaction moment for retailers everywhere. Come join us and build the future!

Outcomes & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy and improve code that solves real world problems
• Manage priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Operate with autonomy in solving problems
• Collaborate with other teams to deliver new products
• Responsible for server-side and client-side feature work across varied browser-based UIs
• Contribute towards creating best practice web experiences

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
  
• 3 years of experience in commercial software development experience designing, building and integrating with complex backend systems
• Commercial experience in JavaScript and one other programming language
• Good understanding of latest web standards including HTML and building complex and responsive layouts using CSS
• You understand how varied HTML, CSS, and JavaScript implementations can be across competing browsers
• Experience with one or more JavaScript UI frameworks; React, Vue, Angular, etc. We have projects in React and Angular
• Experience in any of the following: web/mobile application development, distributed/parallel systems, data structures, systems/security software development, CI/CD pipelines and automation, NodeJS
• Solid experience with a major cloud provider (preferably AWS)
• Excellent communication skills in English - you can explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences both verbally and in writing
• At Rokt we encourage autonomy; teams have complete ownership of their systems including building, running and monitoring. As such, you may be required to be on-call and respond to systems alerts should they arise
• Ideas, opinions, and the ability to share them through respectful proposals, presentations, and team-wide discussions, An eagerness to work and learn in the open and share your learnings with your teammates
• A willingness and comfort communicating remotely through chat, docs, video calls, and other collaborative online tools

Benefits

• Safety is our highest priority. We actively invest in the growth of our people and the strengthening of our communities. Our NYC office is 100% vaccinated to keep our employees and community safe and healthy. We require all Rokt’stars and anyone else who will be onsite at the Rokt NYC office–clients, contractors, vendors, and suppliers–to show proof of vaccination and their booster shot.
• Work with the greatest talent in town. Our recruitment process is tough but diligent. We’re constantly aiming to implement our value of “raise the bar” and set high standard