Senior Software Engineer, Backend
RapidSOSNew York, New York, United States • Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Posted December 10, 2025
145000 - 165000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
RapidSOS is an intelligent safety platform that harnesses artificial and human intelligence to fuse life-saving data from 600M+ connected devices, apps, and sensors from 210+ global technology companies, then delivers it to over 22,000+ public safety agencies in 11 countries.
Job Description
RapidSOS is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join a full-stack team building the next wave of intelligent emergency technology. In this role, you'll design and develop modern backend services, APIs, and data workflows that ensure critical information reaches telecommunicators quickly, accurately, and reliably in their most urgent moments.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience with deep expertise in Python
- Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in an AWS environment
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases and message bus systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS)
- 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
- Equity participation
- Dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team