Staff Software Engineer - Seattle

We are Aftersell by Rokt, a hyper-growth Shopify ecommerce leader.

Aftersell by Rokt enables SMB companies to unlock real-time relevancy in the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. 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. In January 2025, Rokt’s valuation increased to $3.5 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly. In February 2024, Aftersell was acquired by Rokt.

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.

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.

Target Total Compensation: $375,000 - $514,000, including fixed annual salary of $250,000 - $315,000, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.

As a Staff Software Engineer you will be part of the Aftersell team, driving engineering for some of our highest visibility and most impactful products. You will be working closely with other software engineers and product managers in your team on solving interesting problems and driving business values.

About the Role:

• Design, develop, test, deploy and improve code that solves real world problems
• Own complex product features end to end - with a focus on customer impact
• Operate with autonomy in solving problems
• Collaborate with other teams to deliver new products
• Create fast, scalable and easy to use applications
• Build libraries and frameworks that others can use
• Support and mentor other engineers on best practices, architecture, and quality

About You:

• 10 years of experience in Software Engineering
• Strong commercial experience in one of following languages: Go, Java, C#, Python. You have written a lot of performant easy-to-maintain code using best practices.
• Extensive experience with AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
• 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

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better. 

About The Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

• All employees have access to our LevelUp! program, providing opportunities for coaching, courses, and training to support career growth and development.
• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! 
• Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and get fully funded premium health insurance for your entire family! 
• Dog-friendly office 
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
• Work with the greatest talent in town
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.

We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.

Salary : $250,000 - $315,000