Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Summary

Join RapidSOS, an intelligent safety company, as a Senior Software Engineer, Full-stack with a front-end focus. You will build intuitive and robust user interfaces for B2B solutions, integrating advanced and AI-driven features to deliver data from partners to public safety agencies. This role involves driving architectural decisions, ensuring scalability and accessibility of interfaces. You will collaborate with stakeholders across various teams and utilize best-in-class software development practices. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of front-end or full-stack engineering experience with expertise in React and TypeScript. RapidSOS offers a competitive salary and benefits, equity participation, and a dynamic work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience as a front-end or full-stack engineer with deep expertise in React and 3+ years of experience with TypeScript
• Experience with modern CSS frameworks and libraries such as Styled Components
• Proficiency with ideally Python – proficiency with Go, node.js , Rust, Java, C++/C or a similar language will be considered with willingness to learn Python
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in a cloud-based environment
• 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
• You are self-directed and enjoy solving difficult problems in a collaborative environment
• You are passionate about building and releasing software that serves a vital purpose; care deeply about the user experience and is able to quickly identify the optimal visual strategies to meet goals
• Ability and willingness to collaborate in-person a few times per quarter, or as needed

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, deployment, and implementation of new features for our internal and external B2B products, that leverage React, TypeScript, and Python
• Lead strategic architectural decisions, help drive alignment, and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and accessibility
• Maintain and engineer intuitive user interfaces for public safety systems that integrate aesthetics with intuitive, user-centric interactions
• Identify opportunities to assess and enhance current applications, including refactoring code and upgrading technologies used
• 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
• Collaborate in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, GTM, Design, and Product to develop solutions for RapidSOS products
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of JavaScript security best practices
• Familiarity with asynchronous programming concepts, and comfortable with asynchronous systems (message buses, WebSockets)
• Experience with VoIP, telephony, and/or video streaming

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation
• A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team