Staff Software Engineer (SDK)

mParticle by Rokt is widely recognized as one of the leading customer data platforms, serving hundreds of global brands and helping them turn data to insights and insights to action. Built on top of end-to-end streaming architecture, we are committed to empowering businesses to deliver personalized and engaging experiences to their customers across all screens and devices. We believe that the opportunity to help teams activate insights from their customer data to deliver more relevant and adaptive experiences is more important than ever. In January 2025 mParticle merged with Rokt and became mParticle by Rokt. Together, our AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions, connecting 400 million customers across the world’s leading companies.

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt’s AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers, and is trusted to do this by the world’s leading companies.

We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.

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 understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It 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.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt’stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer (SDK)

Target total compensation of $375,000, including a fixed annual salary of $250,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits. 

Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.

The Developers Tools team is responsible for building world-class tools and experiences on top of mParticle by Rokt’'s APIs. This team is the public face of the engineering team - releasing all tools as open source and often working directly with developers to build idiomatic libraries for their developer environments.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to rethink mParticle by Rokt's external SDKs and build APIs that other engineers will love and rely on. You'll also be able to drive the engineering culture through continual research, self-improvement and internal presentation.  We are looking for someone who demonstrates empathy and sincerity to all roles and teammates. Our ideal candidate has a strong balance of technical and people skills and is a proven mentor and technical leader.

About the role: 

• Drive the technical and product direction of the Developer Tools team, building multiplatform tools in Kotlin, Swift, and 10+ other languages and platforms for all of mParticle's APIs
• Mentor and lead engineers of all levels to ensure a high bar for code performance and stability, and advocate for critical infrastructure and software quality initiatives
• All mParticle SDKs are open source on Github and continuously deployed, and you'll be an owner of many of these repositories
• Represent the developer voice to the product and broader engineering team
• Define the team's quality and style guidelines, and encourage those guidelines through in-depth code reviews

About you:

• 7+ years of experience with web technologies
• 5+ years experience of mobile development (iOS, Android)
• Experience with C#/.NET is a big plus
• A passion for developer experience. You provide feedback when you find incorrect docs and aren't afraid to open issues and PRs against open-source repositories
• Opinions and a high bar for software quality and availability, and connect the dots between those metrics and your customers' success
• Ability to engage directly with customers to provide in-depth architectural recommendations when implementing mParticle by Rokt
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience